Rubin Teitelbaum (17 January 1907 – 4 September 1941) was an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n-Jewish weightlifter. He was born in

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. His younger sister was track and field athlete, basketball and volleyball player Sara Teitelbaum. He started his weightlifting exercising in 1925 at the gymnastics association "Sport". He was 7-times Estonian champion. He was a member of Estonian national weightlifting team. He was killed in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

in 1941 following the

German occupation of Estonia during World War II During World War II, in the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944. Estonia had gained independence in 1918 from the then warring German and Russian Empires. How ...

during

the Holocaust in Estonia The Holocaust in Estonia refers to the Nazi crimes during the occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany, 1941-1944 occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany. Prior to the war, there were approximately 4,300 Estonian Jews. During the Occupation of the ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Teitelbaum, Rubin 1907 births 1941 deaths People from Tapa, Estonia People from Kreis Jerwen Estonian Jews Estonian male weightlifters Estonian people who died in the Holocaust