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Spector Naum Khatskerovich (1914)

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SurnameSpector
NameNaum
PatronymKhatskerovich
Birth year1914
Birth month5
Birth day13
Birth placeMonastyryshche
SexM

Spector (Spektor) Naum Khatskerovich (13 May 1914, Monastyryshche, Vinnytsia Region, Ukraine — unknown) — economic worker, officer of the Soviet Army.

From 1933 to 1936, Naum Spector studied at an agricultural technical school (Novoukrainka, Odesa Region). In 1936, he was conscripted into the Red Army: from 1936 to 1937 he served as a rifleman in the 77th Railway Regiment of the NKVD, Belorussian Military District (Minsk); from 1937 to 1938 as a rifleman in the 226th Convoy Regiment of the NKVD (Minsk).

From 1939 to 1940, he worked as a dispatcher at a motor depot of the People’s Commissariat of Motor Transport of the RSFSR (Klim, Kursk Region), and from 1940 to 1941 as a dispatcher at a motor depot of the People’s Commissariat of Motor Transport of the Kirghiz SSR (Frunze). From April to August 1941, he was head of production at the Nuraba Consumers’ Cooperative (Nuraba, Samarkand Region, Uzbek SSR).

From August 1941 to November 1946, he served in the Soviet Army: in 1941 as a rifleman of the 3477th Reserve Rifle Regiment (Spassk, Far Eastern Territory); in 1941–1942 as a cadet at an infantry military school (Khabarovsk); from 1942 to 1944 as a platoon commander; and from 1944 to 1946 as a company commander of the 31st Fortified Region of the 36th Army. He was demobilised in November 1946 with the rank of senior lieutenant of the reserve. He participated in the war against Japan in 1945.

From 1947 to 1950, he worked as a shop assistant and buffet manager at the Trust of Canteens and Restaurants (Riga). From 1950 to 1952, he was a warehouse manager at Sbytminvoda (Riga); from 1952 to 1954 an electrician at the construction administration of the Latvian Industrial Council (Latpromsovet); from 1954 to 1956 a warehouse manager at the Metal Combine (Riga); and from 1957 to 1965 a press operator at the plastics factory “Ausma” (Riga).

He was awarded the medals “For the Victory over Japan” (1945) and “20 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945” (1965). He was a member of the CPSU from 1944 to 1966 (expelled in connection with his application to leave the USSR).

His father was Khatskel Meerovich Spector (1888, Teplik, Ukraine — 1957, Riga), a worker.

His mother was Tauba Leybovna Spector (Monastyryshche — ?, Hadera, Israel), a worker who emigrated to Israel in 1965 to join her daughter.

He married in 1947 Sarra Mendelevna Spector (1912, Suvaniškiai, Lithuania — ?), a seamstress. Their daughter is Izabella Naumovna Spector (b. 1948), a design engineer.

His sisters were Donya Khatskelevna Chervinskaya (1912, Monastyryshche — ?, ?), Mariya Oskarovna Rukh (b. 1927), a physician, and Tsilya Khatskelevna Spector (1916, Monastyryshche — ?, Hadera, Israel), a nurse who emigrated to Israel from Poland in 1957.

His brother was Lev Khatskelevich Spector (b. 1920, Teplik).

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