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
edit- ^ 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.
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