Balkina (née Pliner) Dina Khaimovna (1903, Rēzekne) — homemaker.

Dina Balkina was born into the family of Khaim Davidovich Pliner (1850–1907, Rēzekne), a labourer, and Riva Meerovna Pliner (1868–1920, Rēzekne), a homemaker. She completed eight grades of primary school.

During World War II, Dina Balkina was evacuated to Yelansk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, where she worked at an industrial plant (1941–1945). After the war, she returned to Rēzekne in 1945 and later moved to Riga, where she worked as a nanny at Kindergarten No. 33 (1950). For the rest of her life, she was a homemaker.

Dina Balkina was married to Rafail Yakovlevich Balkin (1892, Rēzekne – 1943, Yelansk, Sverdlovsk Oblast) and had four children:

  • Khaim Rafailovich Balkin (b. 1925, Rēzekne) — son

  • Revekka Rafailovna Dmitrieva (née Balkina) (b. 1924, Rēzekne) — daughter

  • Genya Rafailovna Feld (née Balkina) (1928, Rēzekne – 1969, Tel Aviv, Israel) — daughter

  • Leya Rafailovna Steingold (née Balkina) (b. 1932, Rēzekne) — daughter

In 1972, Dina Balkina received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her late daughter's children (Genya Feld, née Balkina) had already settled, as well as her son-in-law’s uncle, Avraham Yosifovich Steingold (b. 1913, Daugavpils), who had been living there since 1959.

Family Members

  • Khaim Davidovich Pliner (1850–1907) — father

  • Riva Meerovna Pliner (1868–1920) — mother

  • Iosif Khaimovich Pliner (b. 1890) — brother

  • Leya Khaimovna Kager (née Balkina) (b. 1885, Rēzekne) — sister

  • Rafail Yakovlevich Balkin (1892–1943) — husband

  • Khaim Rafailovich Balkin (b. 1925) — son

  • Revekka Rafailovna Dmitrieva (née Balkina) (b. 1924) — daughter

  • Genya Rafailovna Feld (née Balkina) (1928–1969) — daughter

  • Leya Rafailovna Steingold (née Balkina) (b. 1932) — daughter