Spector Sarra Mendelevna (1912)

Spector (Spektor) (née Levi) Sarra Mendelevna (10 July 1912, Suvaniškiai, Lithuania — ?, ?) — seamstress.

After completing four years of primary school, from 1928 Sarra Spector worked as an apprentice and later as a seamstress. From 1939 to 1941, she was married to Getsl Khaimovich Yankun, who was killed near Staraya Russa.

From 1941, she was in evacuation in the Uzbek SSR (Namangan), where she worked at a canning factory. She returned to Riga in 1945.

From 1946 to 1947, she worked as a home-based seamstress for the Riga office of Gilsnab. From 1950 to 1951, she was a seamstress at the artel “Fantazija”; from 1951 to 1956 at the artels “Ada Galantereya” and later “Stakhanovniete”; from 1957 to 1958 a tailor at the Latvian Industrial Council (Higher Red Banner School of Coastal Artillery of the Navy); from 1958 to 1962 a sewing-machine operator at the combine “Ausma” and later the factory “Avangards”; and from 1962 to 1968 a sewing-machine operator at the industrial combine of the Riga Executive Committee, later at the garment factories “Brīvība” and “Rīgas Apģērbs.”

Her father, Mendel Matysevich Levi (1870, Suvaniškiai, Lithuania — 1941, ?), perished in the Holocaust.

Her mother, Beila Hirshevna Levi (1872, Suvaniškiai, Lithuania — 1941, ?), also perished in the Holocaust.

Her brothers Hirsh Mendelevich Levi (1898, Suvaniškiai, Lithuania — 1941, ?) and Aba Mendelevich Levi (1900, Suvaniškiai, Lithuania — 1941, ?) perished in the Holocaust.

Her sister Khana Mendelevna Levi (1908, Suvaniškiai, Lithuania — 1941, ?) also perished in the Holocaust.

From 1947, she was married to Naum Khatskelevich Spector. Their daughter is Izabella Naumovna Spector (b. 1948).