Berezina Sofia Mendelevna (1920)

Berezina (née Blakhman) Sofia Mendelevna (25.05.1920, Osveya) – employee.

After completing seven years of schooling in Osveya, Sofia Berezina worked as a savings bank controller from 1935 to 1941.

In May 1941 she moved to Leningrad,where she worked as a bread store saleswoman until November 1941. In November 1941 – April 1942 she worked as a hospital orderly in an evacuation hospital.

In April 1942 Sofia Berezina was evacuated with the Medical Institute to Krasnoyarsk, where she worked as a canteen waitress at the institute until 1944.

In 1944 she returned to Leningrad, worked as a bread stall saleswoman until 1946. In September 1946 she moved to Varaklani, then in November 1946 – moved to Riga.

In 1950–1955 Sofia Berezina worked as an expedition agent, in 1955–1962 – was a homemaker and starting from 1962 worked as a senior saleswoman.

In 1971, Sofia Berezina emigrated to Israel.

Sofia married Iser Movshevich Berezin in January 1954, and they had a daughter Fania Iserevna Berezina (born 26.05.1957, Riga)? she studied at Riga Secondary School No. 23.

Parents:

  • Mendel Monusovich Blakhman (1871–1941, Osveya) – killed during the war.

  • Faina (Esther?) Abramovna Blakhman (1880–1941, Osveya) – executed by the Nazis.

Siblings:

  • Solomon Mendelevich Blakhman (1910, Leningrad) – killed.

  • Iosel Mendelevich Blakhman – fate unknown.

  • Leva Mendelevich Blakhman (1913 – ?) – died on the Leningrad Front.

  • Katya Mendelevna Simkhovich (née Blakhman) (1902, Leningrad) – killed.

  • Tsilya Mendelevna Teitelbaum (1918 – ?) – died on the way to evacuation.

  • Raisa Mendelevna Tsaykhner (née Blakhman) (born 1922, Verkhnedvinsk District) – doctor, emigrated to Israel in 1957.