LAKUS HEINEK ABOVITCH, 23.03.1918, Riga. Jewish handicraft school, electrician. Retreated from Riga with people" s Guards through Estonia to Leningrad. 64 reg. at Leningrad front, Gorohevetsk camps in 1943; then mortar platoon commander in 308 Lat Rifle div. in Latvia. Order "Patr. War" I d., medals. After the war in "Zasulaukas manufaktura", later director of factory "Kvele". His brother GERSHON killed near Star. Russa. His parents and sister perished in ghetto.