Noah Meisel

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 Department 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]

Bund election poster from Latvia, inviting to a meeting with member of Saeima (Parliament) Dr. Noah Maizel
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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
  1. 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
  2. Latvia, Encyclopaedia Judaica
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