YAKUB ZALMAN IOSIFOVITCH, 1919, Daugavpils. In the family of craftsmen, worked in a doll factory. Gun layer, mortar man ,taught young soldiers,43 Gu Lat. Rifle div., wounded 3 times, each time returning to the ranks. Later worked as a military interpreter in Germany till the end of the war. War inv. After the war worked in Daugavpils. Became an historian a student of the local lore, had many publications, journalist.