Shimeliovich Boris Abramovich (1892, Riga – 1952, Moscow), physician, organiser of public health. Brother of Yu. A. Shimeliovich. In 1919–20 a member of the Bund, from 1920 a member of the RCP(b). After graduating from the Voronezh Medical Institute he headed the sanitary department of the Voronezh Fortified Region. In the early 1920s he worked in the Jewish public commission for famine relief, as a representative to branches of the “Joint” and other charitable organisations, and as head of the organisational departments of these commissions. From 1931 chief physician of the Botkin Hospital in Moscow. Member of the presidium of the JAC (1941).
Address: Moscow, Bolshaya Molchanovka, building 21a, apt. 8.
In 1949 he was arrested and on 12 August 1952 was shot in the JAC case.
Place of burial: Donskoye

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