Nekhom Genya Rafailovna (1916)

Nekhom (Nechom) (née Kastrel, also - Broder) Genya Rafailovna (27 March 1916, Silene, Grīva District, Republic of Latvia) — seamstress and dress cutter.

Having mastered the tailoring trade, Genya Nekhom she worked in private workshops in Riga until 1939. From 1939 to 1941, she was not employed. Between 1941 and 1942, while in evacuation, she worked at a kolkhoz in Yaroslavl Oblast. From 1942 to 1945, she was employed as a worker at the beet collection point of the Kushin Sugar Factory in Kokand. After returning to Riga following the liberation of Latvia from the Nazi, she worked in an ORS shop until 1948. From 1950 to 1951, she was a seamstress at the Brīvība artel; from 1952 to 1963, she worked as a dress cutter at the Daugava knitwear factory. Between 1963 and 1966, she was employed as a seamstress at the Sarkanais Rīts production association in Riga.

Nekhom’s first husband, Iosif Broder (1914–1943), was killed at the front in 1943. Her sister and brothers — Bunya Gendler (néeKastrel) (1905–1940), Borukh Kastrel (1912–1940), and Kasril Kastrel (1912–1940) — perished together with their families during the Nazi occupation of Latvia. Another brother, Avraam Kastrel (1907), left Latvia for Poland in 1957; he later lived in Israel, where he ran his own shop in Haifa.

In 1946, she married for the second time, to Aron Nekhom (1909). In 1972, Genya Nekhom and her family received permission to leave Latvia for permanent residence in Israel.

Family:

Aron Nekhom (1909) — second husband
Rokha Lutrina (née Nekhom) (1948) — daughter
Rafail Kastrel (date of birth unknown – 1923) — father
Goda Kastrel (date of birth unknown – 1932) — mother
Iosif Broder (1914–1943) — first husband
Goda Vulfson (née Broder) (1939) — daughter from first marriage
Rafail Broder (1941) — son from first marriage
Leya Kastrel (1902–1972) — sister
Avraam Kastrel (1907) — brother
Bunya Gendler (née Kastrel) (1905–1940) — sister