Lazar Aronshtam


Lazar Naumovich Aronshtam was a Soviet political officer.
He was born in what is now Ukraine. He was the brother of Grigory Aronshtam. He fought in the Russian Civil War on the side of the Bolsheviks. He was a member of the 17th Central Auditing Commission of the All-Union Communist Party which was established in 1934. During the Great Purge, he was arrested on May 31, 1937 and executed the following year.
He was rehabilitated on June 2, 1956.