Iozefart Mina Borisovna (1914)

Iozefart (Josefart) (Tankel) Mina Borisovna (7 November 1914, Žagarė, Lithuania) — seamstress.

Mina Iosefart was born into the family of shoemaker Boris Abelevich Tankel (1878–1940, Žagarė) and housewife Sara Samuilovna Tankel (Kristal) (1881, Žagarė – killed by the Nazis in the Riga Ghetto in 1941).

She completed six grades at the Žagarė Jewish school (1938), then took dressmaking and tailoring courses, and worked as a seamstress in a Žagarė workshop (1938–41). She was evacuated to Fergana, Uzbek SSR, where she worked as a knitter at the Bolshevik factory (1941–45). After moving to Riga, she was an apprentice in a tie-making workshop (1945–47), a seamstress at the Raznoprom artel (1947–48), was unable to work due to illness (1948–66), and later worked as a cleaner at the Home-Workers’ Cooperative (1966–70).

Married to Binyamin Filippovich Iozefart (1911, Ugāle, Latvia), she had two daughters: Roza Binyaminovna Iozefart (1950, Riga) and Aviva Binyaminovna Iozefart (1957, Riga).

In 1970 she received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her cousin Shoshana Zelikovna Lavon (1909, Riga) lived.

Family:

Boris Abelevich Tankel (1878–1940) — father
Sara Samuilovna Tankel (Kristal) (1881–1941) — mother
Rakhil Borisovna Reikhman (Tankel) (1910, Žagarė – killed by the Nazis in the Riga Ghetto, 1941) — sister
Samuil Borisovich Tankel (1912, Žagarė – killed by the Nazis in the Riga Ghetto, 1941) — brother
Abe Borisovich Tankel (1920, Kursk – killed by the Nazis in the Riga Ghetto, 1941) — brother
David Borisovich Tankel (b. 1922, Žagarė) — brother
Khaim Borisovich Tankel (1927, Žagarė – killed by the Nazis in the Riga Ghetto, 1941) — brother
Shoshana Zelikovna Lavon (b. 1909) — cousin
Binyamin Filippovich Iozefart (b. 1911) — husband
Roza Binyaminovna Iozefart (b. 1950) — daughter
Aviva Binyaminovna Iozefart (b. 1957) — daughter