Shmulik Isaak Rubinovich (15.01.1909, Mogilev Region, Belarus) – shoemaker. He was born into the family of tailor Shmulik Rubin Iosifovich (1881 – killed by the Nazis in 1941, Osipovichi District) and housewife Shmulik (née Friedland) Taiba Berkovna (1880 – killed by the Nazis in 1941, Osipovichi District). He completed 4 grades of the Osipovichi school (1916–1920); in Osipovichi he worked as a tailor with his father (1920–1923), then as a shoemaker for an artisan (1923–1927), and as a shoemaker in an artel (1927–1930); after moving to Minsk, he worked as a shoemaker at the Thälmann Shoe Factory (1930–1941). He fought on the 3rd Ukrainian Front – as a rifleman in the 10th Guards Rifle Corps (1941–1942), and as a line overseer in the 57th Guards Independent Signal Battalion (1942–1945). He was awarded the medals “For Combat Merit” and “For the Defense of the Caucasus.” After demobilization he moved to Riga, where he worked as a shoemaker – at Workshop No. 3 of the Riga District Combine (1946–1949), at the Kirov District industrial combine (1949–1951), at the “Staļina Piectade” artel (1951–1958), at the “Rigas Apavnieks” factory (1958–1959), at the “Rigas Apavi” artel, later renamed the “Venta” shoe combine (1959–1963), and as a shoemaker at the “Blazma” shoe factory, later renamed the “Pirmais Maijs” production association (1963–1973).

В браке со Shmulik (née Soloveychik) Nina Abramovna (1911, Svisloch, Mogilev Region), sons Shmulik Abrash Isaakovich (1933, Svisloch, Mogilev Region), Shmulik Roman Isaakovich (1947, Riga), and daughter Lat (née Shmulik) Inna Isaakovna (1941, Kyzyl-Orda, Kazakh SSR) were born.

In 1973 he received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his son Shmulik Abrash Isaakovich (1933) had been living since 1972.

N. Voronova

Shmulik Rubin Iosifovich (1881–1941) – father
Shmulik (née Friedland) Taiba Berkovna (1880–1941) – mother
Liberstein (née Shmulik) Lyuba Rubinovna (1908, Osipovichi District) – sister
Shmulik (née Soloveychik) Nina Abramovna (1911) – wife
Shmulik Abrash Isaakovich (1933) – son
Lat (née Shmulik) Inna Isaakovna (1941) – daughter
Shmulik Roman Isaakovich (1947) – son