Noah Meisel ( lv, Noijs Maizels; 1891–1956) was a

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ish Bundist politician and doctor in Latvia. He was born in

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in the

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of the

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(now

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). He worked in the Latvian Department of Health. 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.Latvia

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Meisel was arrested and deported by the Soviet authorities after the

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. He died in

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in 1956.Bernhard Press
The murder of the Jews in Latvia: 1941-1945
Northwestern University Press, 2000, p. 10. ,

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