Mordehai Dubin
Mordehai Dubin | |
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| Deputy of the Saeima | |
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| Born | 1 January 1889 Riga |
| Died | 1956 (aged 66–67) Tula |
| Political party | Agudas Israel |
Mordehai Dubin (
Member of Parliament (Saeima) for the Agudas Israel party.[1][2] He headed the Jewish community in Latvia until 1940, when it was annexed by the USSR
.
Due to his efforts, the imprisonment of the famous "
USSR
in 1927 was commuted to exile in Latvia.
Dubin was a personal friend of Kārlis Ulmanis, the nationalist authoritarian dictator of Latvia from 1934 to 1940.[3]
Dubin was deported from Latvia by the Soviet authorities in 1940 and released in 1942. After
Samara, and later in Tula
, where he died in 1956 in a labor camp and is buried.
References
- ^ "Latvijas Republikas Saeima". www.saeima.lv. Archived from the original on June 18, 2008.
- ^ "A242-082". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
- ^ Ebreji un diktatūras Baltijā 1926 - 1940, Aivars Stranga, Latvijas Universitātes Jūdaiks studiju centrs, Rīga, 2002., 200. lpp.
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