Shenkman Salomon was born on 27 October 1908 in Kublichi, Russia, into the family of a merchant. His father was Gabriel, his mother Khasya. From 1909 he lived in Riga. From 1916 he studied at the E. Hermann German secondary school in Riga, graduating in 1925.

He studied law at the Herder Institute. In 1926 he began studying law at the University of Latvia, graduating in 1931. From 1931 he was a trainee at the Court Chamber; from November, candidate for a junior judicial post in the Civil Department; from January 1934, candidate for a senior judicial post in the Criminal Department. From 16 May 1934 he was assistant to sworn advocate G. Rubinstein in Riga, and from February 1939 in Kuldīga. He was a Philister of the Jewish student corporation “Vetulia.”

He was killed in the Riga ghetto during the German occupation of 1941.

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