Axelrod (Akselrod) (Medvinskaya) Dorothea Mikhailovna (12.05.1914, Odessa) – Laboratory assistant.
Dorothea Axelrod was born into the family of civil servant Mikhail Ovseyevich Medvinsky(1883–1933, Leningrad) and Rosalia Yudkovna Medvinskaya (Meerovich) (1891, Odessa). She completed secondary school in 1930, followed by the Mendeleev Chemical Training Institute in 1932 (Leningrad).
From 1932 to 1939, Dorothea Axelrod worked as a laboratory assistant at the Leningrad Institute of Applied Chemistry.
From 1939 to 1941, she worked as a librarian at Secondary School No. 22 in Leningrad.
She endured the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1942) before being evacuated to Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, where she worked as a hospital matron in an infectious disease hospital (1943) and later as an economist at a cotton-spinning factory (1944).
After returning to Leningrad, she worked as a librarian at Secondary School No. 207 (1944–1946).
After moving to Riga, she was a homemaker, financially dependent on her husband (1946–1962).
From 1962 to 1963, she worked as a secretary-typist at the Riga Technical College of Light Industry.
From 1963 to 1965, she was a librarian at the Children's House of Culture.
From 1965 to 1971, she worked as a ticket sales agent at the Riga Youth Theatre.
Dorothea was married to Grigory Borisovich Axelrod (1906, Zhytomyr – 1972, Riga), and they had two sons:
Yuri Grigoryevich Axelrod (1937, Leningrad)
Viktor Grigoryevich Axelrod (1946, Jūrmala)
In 1979, Dorothea Axelrod received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her niece, Yenta Hertsekhovna Axelrod (Volos) (1933, Varakļāni), had been living since 1973.
Family Members:
Mikhail Ovseyevich Medvinsky (1883–1933) – father
Rosalia Yudkovna Medvinskaya (Meerovich)(1891) – mother
Elga Mikhailovna Dementyeva (Medvinskaya) (1911, Odessa) – sister
Lilia Mikhailovna Medvinskaya(1923, Odessa) – sister
Grigory Borisovich Axelrod (1906–1972) – husband
Yuri Grigoryevich Axelrod (1937) – son
Viktor Grigoryevich Axelrod (1946) – son
Yenta Hertsekhovna Axelrod (Volos) (1933) – niece