Noah Meisel

Belarusian-born Latvian Jewish politician and Bundist

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Noah Meisel (Latvian: Noijs Maizels; 1891–1956) was a Jewish Bundist politician and doctor in Latvia. He was born in Nesvizh in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Belarus). He worked in the Latvian Ministry of Health.^[1] Meisel, also a Daugavpils city council member, was elected for the Bund in the three first Latvian Parliament in 1922, 1925 and 1928, but was not reelected in 1931.^[2] After the coup d'état on May 15, 1934, he was imprisoned in the Liepāja concentration camp.^[3]

Meisel was arrested and deported by the Soviet authorities after the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940. He died in Northern Russia in 1956.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Bernhard Press, The murder of the Jews in Latvia: 1941-1945, Northwestern University Press, 2000, p. 10. ISBN 0-8101-1729-0, ISBN 978-0-8101-1729-7
^ Latvia, Encyclopaedia Judaica
^ "Liepājas koncentrācijas nometne un tās režīms" (PDF). arhivi.lv. Retrieved 2024-03-27.