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Tseytel Borukh (1908-1937)

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SurnameTseytel
NameBorukh
Birth year1908
Birth month6
Birth day20
Birth placeRiga
Death year1937
Death month11
Death placeSpain
SexM

Tseytel Borukh (20.06.1908, Riga — November 1937, Spain) — participant in the Spanish Civil War. Student at the law faculty of the Latvian State University, who at the same time in 1929 completed the Institute of the English Language. He worked as a printing-house proofreader. Member of the Society of Working Students of the Jewish University and the Society of Culture of Working People. From 1928 — participant in the underground Komsomol of Latvia. In 1930 he was arrested (at a workers' rally in the Babīte forest). He left illegally for Paris. From 1936 — volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, fighter in the “Thälmann Battalion” of the 11th International Brigade. He defended Madrid. He was killed in battle.

Lit.: Vater E. The Jews of Latvia in the Struggle against Nazism. Riga, 2004. P. 20-21.