Neidlin Khaya Berlovna (1924)

Neidlin (née Becker) Khaya Berlovna (30 July 1924, Tukums) — factory worker.

Khaya Neidlin completed six grades of a Jewish primary school in Tukums. From 1939 to 1941 she worked as a shop assistant trainee in Tatarsone’s dry-goods store in Tukums. In 1941 she was evacuated to Chelyabinsk Oblast, where she worked on the Bralgina collective farm. In 1942 she enrolled in, and in 1945 graduated from, Vocational School No. 2 in Chelyabinsk, qualifying as a lathe operator.

In 1946 Neidlin returned to Latvia and until 1947 worked as a telephone operator at the Tukums communications office. From 1947 to 1948 she served as manager of a shop of the Tukums consumers’ cooperative. In 1948 she was prosecuted for misappropriation of state property and sentenced to five years of corrective labor. She was held in corrective labor camps in Ventspils until 1949 and was released early by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR.

From 1950 to 1959 Neidlin worked in the shoe workshop of the Tukums District Industrial Combine. From 1959 to 1960 she was employed as a machine adjuster at Printing House No. 29 in Tukums.

She was married to Khaim Israelievich Neidlin (born 1913, Riga). Their daughter, Bella Zel (née Neidlin), was born in 1949 in Ventspils.

Family:

Khaim Israelievich Neidlin (born 1913, Riga) — husband
Bella Zel (née Neidlin) (born 1949, Ventspils) — daughter
Berl Becker (1893–1926, Tukums) — father
Liba (Lyubov) Becker (née ?) (born 1894, Tukums) — mother
Riva Becker (born 1922, Tukums) — sister