Shoykhet Frida Emanuilovna (1907)

Shoykhet (née Kreposter) Frida Emanuilovna (1907, Bender – unknown). Father – Emanuil (Mendel) Kreposter was an office worker, who died in 1918 in Bender; mother – Kreposter Sosya, a housewife, who died in 1952 in Samarkand. Sister Valovskaya (née Kreposter) Krentsa (b. 1894) died in Riga in 1970. Brother – Kreposter Mordkhay (b. 1903) died in Israel in 1971. Sister – Kreposter Tsilya (b. 1896) lived in the State of Israel.
She completed secondary school in 1925, and worked as a librarian. In 1934 she married Shoykhet Iosif Yefremovich. In 1941 she was evacuated with her husband and mother to Samarkand. In October 1942 her husband died. From 1942 to 1943 she worked at the “Women's Labor” artel. She later moved to the “Vatman” artel, where she worked as a cutter-overlocker in the knitwear shop. She was awarded the state medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.” In 1948 she moved to Chernivtsi, taking a job at the 1st Knitwear Factory as an instructor in the sewing shop.
After her mother's death in 1952 she moved to Riga, where she worked as a bookkeeper-cashier at the rest home of Construction Trust No. 21. From 1952 to 1957 she worked as a broker at the “Uznemiba,” “Daugava,” and “Cīņa” artels. In May 1956 she married Bayukaner Meyer Leybovich. From 1957 to 1962 she worked as a cutter at the “Rīgas Adītājs” factory. In 1962 she retired on an old-age pension. In 1967 her husband Bayukaner Meyer Leybovich died. From 1968 to 1972 he had worked as a cashier at the “Rīgas Foto” combine.

A. Baranovsky