Kovnat Zara Aronovna (1924)

Kovnat (Kownat) (née Musina; later Glas)Zara Aronovna (b. 18 December 1924, Riga) — employee.

In 1939, Zara Kovnat graduated from primary school and began working as an apprentice to a dressmaker named Pushinsky. In 1941, she started working as a weaver at Zasulauks Manufactory.

At the beginning of World War II, she evacuated with her family to the Achit District, Sverdlovsk Region, where she worked on the Kirov collective farm until 1942. That same year, she studied at School F-30, where after five months she qualified as a metalworker and worked until 1944 at the locomotive depot in Krasnoufimsk. In 1944, she was sent to the Kharkov Region to work on the Krupskaya collective farm.

In July 1945, she returned to Riga, where she worked as a saleswoman at City Food Trade No. 2; from May 1958, as a saleswoman at the Sloka Consumers’ Cooperative Department Store.

In 1964, she visited Poland at the invitation of her cousin. Since 1972, she has resided in Israel.

In March 1948, she married Peisakh Davidovich Kovnat (b. 1908, Gostini – d. 1958, Riga) — fur procurement agent. They had two daughters: Asya Peisakhovna Kovnat and Dora Peisakhovna Kovnat

In 1964, she married again, to Shimon Pinkhasovich Glas (b. 1920, Poland – d. ?); the marriage was dissolved in May 1966.

Parents:

Aron Isaakovich Musin (b. 1878, Druya – d. January 1945, Krasnograd) — port worker, later employed at a sawmill.

Riva Ovseyevna Musina (b. 1880, Riga – d. 1959, Riga).

Siblings:

Rakhil Aryevna Izakovich (née Musina) (b. 1911, Riga – d. ?)

Malka Aronovna Kovnat (née Musina) (b. 1913, Riga – d. ?) — manicurist at the Laimdota factory.

Isak Aronovich Musin (b. 1918, Vladimir – d. ?) — killed in action during World War II.

Cousin:

Tzvi Izakovich Zaks (b. 1920, Riga – d. ?) — lived in Israel since 1939 (Kiryat Shprintsak), worked in construction.