Kreiner Khaya Abramovna (1911)

Kreiner (née Bleher, also Levshtein) Khaya (Chaya) Abramovna (21 June 1911, Kruk, Lithuania – ?) — saleswoman.

Khaya Kreiner was the daughter of Abram Bleher (1870, Riga – 1965, Riga) and Rokha Bleher (1869, Kruk, Lithuania – 1942, Alma-Ata Region). In 1924, she completed five grades of a Jewish school. From 1924 to 1929, she worked as a saleswoman in Cherlov’s shoe shop in Riga. From 1929 to 1941, she was a housewife. In 1941, she was evacuated to the Kazakh SSR, where until 1943 she worked as a home-based seamstress sewing uniforms for the military at Aksuy Station. In 1943, she moved to the Udmurt ASSR and from 1943 to 1945 worked as a waitress in the canteen of the 8th Artillery Special School in Izhevsk.

In 1945, Kreiner returned to Riga. From 1947 to 1955, she worked as a saleswoman in the shop of the Krasnoarmeysky District Industrial Cooperative in Riga. From 1955 to 1961, she was employed at Shop No. 64 of the Riga City Industrial Trade Organisation. From 1961 to 1970, she worked at Shop No. 59 of the Riga Textile, Clothing and Footwear Trade Organisation. In 1970, she was convicted of negligence and given a five-year suspended sentence by the court of the Moskovsky District of Riga. From 1972, she worked as an assembly fitter at the Riga Experimental Metal Products Plant “Mangali”.

In her first marriage to Khaim Levshtein (1903, Daugavpils – 1942, Staraya Russa), she had two daughters — Khiena Kodess (née Levshtein) (b. 1930, Riga) and Khinde Erenstein (née Levshtein) (b. 1935, Riga). In her second marriage to Nakhman Kreiner (1907, Riga – 1974, Riga), she had a daughter — Rokha Stekol (née Kreiner) (b. 1948, Riga). In 1979, Khaya Kreiner received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her daughter Khinde.

Family:

Khaim Levshtein (1903, Daugavpils – 1942, Staraya Russa) — first husband
Kheina Kodess (Levshtein) (b. 1930, Riga) — daughter
Khinde Erenstein (Levshtein) (b. 1935, Riga) — daughter
Nakhman Kreiner (1907, Riga – 1974, Riga) — second husband
Rokha Stekol (Kreiner) (b. 1948, Riga) — daughter
Abram Bleher (1870, Riga – 1965, Riga) — father
Rokha Bleher (1869, Kruk, Lithuania – 1942, Alma-Ata Region) — mother
Khasya Bongs (Bleher) (b. 1912, Kruk, Lithuania) — sister