Yankelovich Aron Saulovich (18.11.1895, Jaunaglona) — accountant. In 1913 he completed gymnasium and began working at the “Shatenshteyn and Blumberg” woodworking firm in Liepāja. In 1915 he was taken to Germany as a civilian prisoner of war; after his release in 1916 he returned to Latvia. In 1913—40 — accountant at the firms “Blumshteyn and Rozovsky” and “Baltic Corporation” in Liepāja and Riga. In 1940—41 — senior accountant at the Riga Restaurant Trust. In 1941 Ya. was confined in the Riga ghetto and directed to forced labor: until November 1941 he transported furniture from abandoned Jewish apartments to a warehouse located on the corner of Lenin and Sarkanarmijas Streets. On 30 November 1941 he was transferred to the Small Riga Ghetto. Members of Ya.'s family — his mother, Yankelovich (née Kotler) Ester (…, Birzai, Lithuania — 1941); his sister, Khazen (née Yaneklovich) Nese (1900, Jaunaglona — 1941); his brother, Yankelovich Iosif (1903, Jaunaglona — 1941); Ya.'s wife and five children — remained in the large ghetto and were killed in Rumbula. Only Ya.'s daughter, Aloni (née Yankelovich) Leya (1925, Aizpute), survived: she managed to jump from the vehicle transporting Jews from the Riga ghetto to be shot. (Subsequently she was employed in forced labor at the VEF plant, and in 1944 was sent to Poland. After liberation in 1945 Ya.'s daughter, believing that all family members had perished in the Holocaust, went to Palestine.) Thereafter Ya. was employed in work connected with transporting the property of shot Jews to a warehouse located in the Riga Pioneer Palace (now the Presidential Palace). He was subsequently transferred to work at the Riga-Freight railway station, from which Ya. managed to escape. Until the liberation of Latvia in 1944, Ya. hid in Riga with a Latvian family. In 1944—51 — head of the financial department of the Chief Administration of the Cellulose and Paper Industry of the LSSR. In 1951—55 — deputy chief accountant for financial matters at “Latbumtrest.” In 1956—59 — accountant at the “Līgatne” paper factory. From 1959 — pensioner. In 1964 Ya. received permission to emigrate to Israel to be reunited with his daughter and his brother and sister, Yankelovich Pinkhos and Vitkevich (née Yankelovich) Pnina, who had emigrated to Palestine in the 1920s.

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Aloni (née Yankelovich) Leya (1925, Aizpute) — daughter
Yankelovich (née Kotler) Ester (…, Birzai, Lithuania — 1941) — mother
Yankelovich Saul (… — 1918) — father
Khazen (née Yaneklovich) Nese (1900, Jaunaglona — 1941) — sister
Yankelovich Iosif (1903, Jaunaglona — 1941) — brother
Yankelovich Pinkhos (…) — brother
Vitkevich (née Yankelovich) Pnina (…) — sister