Noah Meisel (; 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 Ministry of Health. Meisel, also a

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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. After the coup d'état on May 15, 1934, he was imprisoned in the Liepāja concentration camp. 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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