Bek (née Kazarnovskaya) Bluma Mendelevna (19.07.1914, Daugavpils) – assembler.

Bluma Bek completed eight years of education at Daugavpils Primary School. From 1931 to 1938, she worked as a saleswoman at the Peka company in Daugavpils.

In 1941, Bluma Bek was evacuated to Turkmenistan and worked on the Sandy-Kachi agricultural farm in Mari El. From 1943 to 1944, she was a personnel inspector and supply manager at the municipal office of the TNPS trust in Nebit-Dag.

In 1945,Bluma Bek returned to Riga after re-evacuation. She worked at enterprises of the Baltic Railway from 1945 to 1946 and again from 1971 to 1976. Since 1976, was retired.

Bluma was married toIzrail Bek (born 1916, Saratov). They had two daughters: Zara Soiferman (née Bek) (born 1938, Daugavpils) and Basya Kogan (née Bek) (born 1946, Riga), who emigrated to Los Angeles, USA, in 1979.

Bluma’s mother, Sora-Riva Kazarnovskaya, passed away in 1916 in Daugavpils. Her father, Mendel Kazarnovsky, perished in the Holocaust during the war.

In 1981, Bluma Bek was granted permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family:

  • [[en:people:bek_izrail|Izrail Bek]] (born 1916, Saratov) – husband

  • Zara Soiferman (née Bek) (born 1938, Daugavpils) – daughter

  • Basya Kogan (née Bek) (born 1946, Riga) – daughter

  • Sora-Riva Kazarnovskaya (died 1916, Daugavpils) – mother

  • Mendel Kazarnovsky (died 1941(?), Riga) – father

  • Boris Kazarnovsky (born 1908, Daugavpils) – brother

  • Sholom Kazarnovsky (born 1910, Daugavpils) – brother

  • Cecilia Band (née Kazarnovskaya) (born 1912, Daugavpils) – sister

  • Emma Rothstein (née Kazarnovskaya) (born 1906, Daugavpils) – sister