Vysotsky (Wisoztky) Yosef (also known as Jazep Visotsky)

1907–1941

Yosef Vysotsky was born on 24 April 1907 in Riga to a family of a merchant and property owner. Father: David; mother: Itta (née Sholomova). From 1916, he studied at P. Stabuš's primary gymnasium, and from 1918 at the Riga Municipal Technical Gymnasium.

After graduating from the Riga State German Secondary School in 1925, he began studying law at the University of Latvia, graduating in 1931. On 20 September 1933, he became a junior associate at the law office of L. Vilenkin in Riga.

During the Soviet occupation, from 30 January 1941, he worked as a lawyer at Riga's 2nd Legal Consultation Office.

Yosef Vysotsky was murdered in the Riga Ghetto during the Nazi occupation in 1941.

In 1938, he married Beatrice Shmuilova, a dental student.

He was a philister (alumnus) of the Jewish student fraternity Vetulia.