Shenkman David Mikhailovich (1909)

Shenkman David Mikhailovich (30.05.1909, Riga) – office worker. Born into the family of Shenkman Mikhail Davidovich (1877, Vitebsk, Belarus – 1932, Riga) and Shenkman (Iofik) Musha Mikhailovna (1886 or 1888–1940, Riga). He studied in Riga at the city gymnasium (1917–1918), at Kort's gymnasium (1918–1922), at Landau's gymnasium (1922–1924), and then at the gymnasium of the 1st Society of Teachers (1924–1926).
In 1927 he enrolled at the Commercial Institute of the University of Grenoble (France), but had to interrupt his studies due to his father's illness (1930). On returning to Riga he worked at the “Woodexport” timber-processing enterprise (1930–1932), then at the “Sylvana” timber firm (1932–1935).
He served in the 5th Cēsis Infantry Regiment of the Latvian Army (1935–1936). He was technical manager at the firm “Sylvana” (1936–1940), and senior bookkeeper of the 1st Riga State Trade Office (1940–1941).
He was evacuated to Yaroslavl Oblast, where he worked as bookkeeper at the “Rassvet” collective farm (1941–1942); moving to Andijan Oblast in the Uzbek SSR, he worked as bookkeeper at the Budyonny collective farm (1942–1943), then as senior commodity expert at the “Sredazenergomontazh” office (1943–1945).
On returning to Riga he worked as head of the supply point at the Riga Ship Repair Plant (1945–1946), senior commodity expert of the Riga Fish Cooperative (1946–1947), manager of shops of the “Savieniba,” “Restavrator,” and “Latkoopторg” artels (1946–1955), was a commodity expert in shops No. 4 and No. 67 (1955–1962), senior commodity expert of construction administration SU-422 of the “Baltmorgidrostroy” trust and of the atomic reactor of the Institute of Physics of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (1962–1964), and worked as head of the supply department of the “Latvijas Bērzs” plywood plant (1964–1971).

His marriage to Shenkman (Nagli) Minda Yefremovna (1908, Dagda, Latvia) produced sons Shenkman Mikhail Davidovich (1940, Riga – 1942, Andijan Oblast) and Shenkman Yefrem Davidovich (1943, Andijan).

In 1971 he received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his half-sister (on his father's side), Rabinovich (Shenkman) Khana Mikhailovna (1908, Vitebsk), had lived since 1945. His sister was visiting relatives in Minsk when the Great Patriotic War began. She first ended up in the Minsk ghetto, from where she was deported to Germany. After her liberation from the concentration camp she went to what was then Palestine.

N. Voronova

Shenkman Mikhail Davidovich (1877–1932) – father
Shenkman (Iofik) Musha Mikhailovna (1886 or 1888–1940) – mother
Shenkman Ilya Mikhailovich (born in Vitebsk, lived in London) – half-brother (on father's side)
Rabinovich (Shenkman) Khana Mikhailovna (1908) – half-sister (on father's side)
Shenkman Ida Mikhailovna (1913, Riga – died in an air crash in 1956) – sister
Shenkman (Nagli) Minda Yefremovna (1908) – wife
Shenkman Mikhail Davidovich (1940–1942) – son
Shenkman Yefrem Davidovich (1943) – son