Koblenz Lea Moiseyevna (1890)

Koblenz (née Ginsburg) Lea Moiseyevna (b. 1890, Krustpils – ?) — knitter (home worker).

Lea Koblenz was the daughter of Feiga Ginzburg (1861, Krustpils – 1938, Krustpils) and Moisey Ginzburg (1862, Gostini, Latvia – 1918, Krustpils). The date of birth listed in official documents — April 4, 1890 — was described by K. herself as inaccurate. She received no formal education and remained illiterate throughout her life.

Nine months after her marriage, Lea Koblenz was widowed: her husband was killed by local bandits. Several months after his death, she gave birth to her son Lazer Koblenz (1918, Krustpils).

From 1918 to 1940, she worked as a home-based knitter in a workshop in Krustpils. During the war, from 1941 to 1945, she worked on a collective farm, the “Lenin’s Path” kolkhoz, in the Stalingrad region. In 1945, Lea Koblenz returned to Riga, where she lived dependent on her son’s support.

Her husband, Lazer Koblenz (1890–1918), was born and buried in Krustpils.

Her sister, Tilya Videgorn (née Ginzburg) (b. 1894, Krustpils), left Latvia in 1926 in search of work and by the 1960s was living and working in New York, USA.

Family:

Lazer Koblenz (1890, Krustpils – 1918, Krustpils) - huzband

Lazer (Lazar) Koblenz, (b. 1918, Krustpils) - son

Feiga Ginzburg (1861, Krustpils – 1938, Krustpils) - mother
Moisey Ginzburg (1862, Gostini, Latvia – 1918, Krustpils) - father

Israel Ginzburg (b. 1888, Krustpils) -brother

TilyaVidegorn (Ginzburg) (b. 1894, Krustpils) -sister