Svirsky (Swirsky) Iosif (Daugavpils — July [August] 1941, Estonia) — military serviceman.

Iosif Svirsky lived in Riga. He fought on the fronts of the Russian Civil War.

When the Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, he left Riga together with the Workers’ Guard. He was killed during the retreat in Estonia in 1941.

Literature:

Vater, E. Jews of Latvia in the Struggle against Nazism (Евреи Латвии в борьбе с нацизмом). Tel Aviv, 2004.