Lurie Polina Markovna (1935)

Lurie (née Melamed) Polina Markovna (13 October 1935, Donetsk) — nurse.

In 1942 Polina Lurie’s mother, Reiza Melamed (1903), was evacuated together with her children to Alma-Ata. In 1945 Polina returned to Odessa. In 1952 she completed seven classes of secondary school in Odessa, and in 1955 qualified as a nurse after graduating from two-year Red Cross nursing courses.

In the mid-1950s Polina Lurie moved to Riga, where her mother, Reiza Melamed, was already living. In 1956 she worked as a nurse at the railway workers’ sanatorium “Dzintari”. From 1958 to 1961 she worked at the Jūrmala sanatoria “Melluži” and “Jūrnieks”. From 1963 she was employed as a nurse at Riga City Polyclinic No. 4.

Lourie’s father, Mark Melamed (1903–1944), a native of Odessa, was killed at the front in 1944. Her sister, Klara Vroshevich (née Melamed) (1928), moved from Odessa to Israel in 1962.

Family members:

Luis Lurie (1922) — husband
Mark Lurie (1960) — son
Mark Melamed (1903–1944) — father
Reiza Melamed (1903) — mother
Klara Vroshevich (née Melamed) (1928) — sister