Segal Ilya (Ilja) Samuilovich (Ger. Ilja Segal) (4 January 1913, Riga) — worker.
In 1926, Ilya Segal completed seven classes at the “Tabai” school. From 1927 to 1932, he worked as a salesman in the ready-made clothing shop “Modern” in Riga. From 1932 to 1934, he was a hosiery worker at the knitwear factory “Kolibri.”
In 1934, he moved to Kaunas, where he worked as a knitwear master at the firm “Tramit” of the Kaplan brothers. From 1935 to 1937, he served in the Latvian Army. From 1937 to 1940, he worked as a salesman in Shalin’s clothing shop in Kaunas, and in 1940–1941 as a salesman in the 1st state commission shop in Kaunas.
In 1941, he was evacuated to the Tajik SSR, where he worked as a forwarding agent and shop manager in the Daganin rural cooperative. In 1942, he served as a private in the 249th Regiment of the 16th Lithuanian Division, but was demobilized due to health reasons.
In 1943, he worked as a controller in the city park of Kulyab, and from 1943 to 1945 as a watchman in the state seed fund in Kulyab. In 1945, he returned to Latvia.
From 1947 to 1950, he worked in the rubber workshop of the invalids’ artel “Raznoprom” in Riga. From 1950 to 1952, he was a button-covering maker (craftsman) in the artels “Rīgas Drēbnieks,” “Galalit,” “Remont,” and at the industrial combine of the Baltic Military District trade system.
From 1952 to 1955, he continued as a button-covering craftsman in the artels “Bērnu Apģērbs” and “Rīgas Kooperators.” From 1955 to 1956, he worked in a sewing atelier at the main department store in Voronezh.
From 1956 to 1958, he was a pleating worker at the household services combine of the Kirov district of Riga, and in 1958 at the Household Services Pavilion. In the same year, he was convicted under Article 129 of the RSFSR Criminal Code and sentenced to one year of corrective labor.
From 1958 onward, he worked as a pleating worker in the artels “Trud,” “Rīgas Ekspresis,” at household service combines of the Kirov and Moscow districts of Riga, and at Custom Tailoring Factory No. 1.
He was married to Genya Segal (née Garber; 1917, Skaudvilė, Lithuania). Their children were Robert Segal (1941, Kulyab, Tajik SSR) and Sara Segal (1945, Riga).
During the Holocaust, his parents Samuil Segal (1880, Ladoga — 1942?) and Roza Segal (née Blokh; 1875, Riga — 1942?) were murdered, as well as his sister Ina Segal (1907, Riga — 1942?).
His sisters Sonya Brikman (née Segal; 1911, Riga) and Lyubov Rivkind (née Segal; 1909, Riga) emigrated to Israel in the 1960s.
In 1956, Ilya Segal submitted his first application to emigrate to Israel, which was approved only in 1963.
Family:
Genya Segal (née Garber; 1917) — wife
Robert Segal (1941) — son
Sara Segal (1945) — daughter
Samuil Segal (1880–1942?) — father
Roza Segal (née Blokh; 1875–1942?) — mother
Ina Segal (1907–1942?) — sister
Lyubov Rivkind (née Segal; 1909) — sister
Sonya Brikman (née Segal; 1911) — sister