| Personal data |
| Surname | Khozias |
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| Name | Beola |
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| Patronym | Yankelevna |
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| Birth year | 1940 |
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| Birth month | 1 |
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| Birth day | 2 |
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| birth_place | Jēkabpils |
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Valun Hirsh (1876-1941)
| Personal data |
| Surname | Valun |
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| Name | Hirsh |
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| Birth year | 1876 |
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| Birth month | 12 |
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| Birth day | 10 |
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| birth_place | Braslav |
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| Death year | 1941 |
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| Death place | Kuldīga |
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| Sex | M |
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Valun (Walun) Hirsh (Hirsch) (10 December 1876, Braslav, Novoalexandrovsk Governorate [now Belarus] – 1941, Kuldīga)
In 1907, Hirsh Valun completed his studies at the yeshivas of Volozhin in the Oshmiany District of Vilna Governorate (now Belarus) and in Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania).
He served as a rabbi in Krasnopolye, Sejny County, Suwałki Governorate (Poland) from 1910 to 1915, in Novosventsyany (now Švenčionėliai, Lithuania), Sventsyany County, Vilna Governorate from 1916, and in Braslav (now Belarus) from 1920 to 1930.
On 17 September 1937, Hirsh Valun became the rabbi of Kuldīga (Latvia).
He was killed in the Holocaust.