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Shneyder Aizik Yankelevich (1896)

Personal data
SurnameShneyder
NameAizik
PatronymYankelevich
Birth year1896
Birth month9
Birth day17
Birth placeRiga
SexM

Shneyder Aizik Yankelevich (17.9.1896, Riga) – chemical engineer. He completed secondary school in 1914 and the chemistry faculty of the University of Latvia in 1920. From 1920 to 1933 he worked as an engineer at the “Prometheus” office (Riga). From 1933 to 1940 he was an employee of the firm “Ya. Shneyder” (Riga).
He spent 1941–1944 in evacuation with his family in Chelyabinsk Region (Troitsk, where he worked as a grain elevator engineer). In December 1944 Sh. returned to Riga, was employed at various enterprises in the positions of engineer and shop head, and retired due to age in 1960. In his marriage to Kaftalovich Enta Shmuylovna (1910), a daughter (Korsunskaya Dina, 1939) was born. From the 1960s Sh.A. and his wife moved permanently to Israel.

Sh.'s sister, Mikelson (née Shneyder) Sofia, was killed in Riga during the German occupation.

A. Yakaite

Shneyder (née Kaftalovich) Etna (1910) – wife
Shneyder Yankel (date of birth unknown – 1938) – father
Shneyder Dina (date of birth unknown – 1920) – mother
Mikelson (née Shneyder) Sofia (date of birth unknown – 1940s) – sister
Korsunskaya (née Shneyder) Dina (1939) – daughter