Segal Solomon Borisovich (24 August 1921, Kārsava) — worker.
Solomon Segal was the son of Boris Segal (1881, Rēzekne — 1935, Riga) and Miryam Segal (née Blyakhman; 1891, Rēzekne — ?, Riga).
In 1936, he completed six classes of a Jewish primary school in Kārsava, and in the same year moved to Riga. He worked as a laborer at a sawmill, and in 1939 moved to work at a glass factory.
In 1941, Solomon Segal was arrested and, under Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment with a subsequent five-year exile. According to archival records (case No. 19643, Information Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Latvian SSR), on 9 January 1941 he had initially been sentenced to death by a military tribunal of the Baltic Special Military District. As a member of the Union of Latvian Youth, he was accused of having offered his services to the political police in 1938 and acting as a paid agent; in 1939, with his alleged assistance, 17 members of the youth organization were arrested and sentenced. The death sentence was later commuted to 10 years in a labor camp (ITL).
During his imprisonment, according to MVD records, he lived in a civil marriage with Rane Neumann, a native of Germany, who bore him a son.
In 1950, he was released early from the labour camps and moved to the Novosibirsk region, where he worked on a collective farm. From 1952 to 1953, he worked in municipal services (Mikhailovka district); from 1953 to 1956, as a carpenter in the regional road administration (“Rayavtoshdore”).
In 1956, he was released from exile and returned to Latvia. Until 1957, he worked as a mechanic at the Krustpils district industrial combine. In 1957–1958, he was a general worker at the “Jugla” fur sovkhoz. In 1958, he worked as a stamper at the “Autoelektropribor” factory, and from 1958 to 1965, as a laborer at Riga Trade Base No. 1.
In 1959, he was again convicted (Article 118 of the Latvian SSR Criminal Code) and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in the Jelgava labour camp, from which he was released early.
From 1965, he worked as a glass cutter at the Riga glass factory.
He was married to Sara Segal (née Khait; 1931, Tartu). Their daughter is Stella Segal (1958, Riga).
His brother Naum Segal (1918–1944) was killed in action during World War II. During the Holocaust, his siblings Isaak Segal (1916–1941, Riga) and Riva Segal (1912–1941, Kārsava) were murdered.
In 1971, Solomon Segal received permission to emigrate to Israel. By the late 1970s, he lived in Bnei Brak, where he worked as an employee at an enterprise.
Family:
Sara Segal (née Khait; 1931, Tartu) — wife
Stella Segal (1958, Riga) — daughter
Boris Segal (1881–1935) — father
Miryam Segal (née Blyakhman; 1891–?) — mother
Vulf Segal (1914, Kārsava) — brother
Rakhil Lubotskaya (née Segal; 1910, Kārsava) — sister
Naum Segal (1918–1944) — brother
Isaak Segal (1916–1941) — brother
Riva Segal (1912–1941) — sister
Itzhak Khait (1904, Viļāni) — uncle (by marriage)