Berelovich (née Plotke) Benita Zalamanovna (18.12.1949, Riga) – nurse.

Benita Berelovich (Berelowitsch) was born into the family of Zalaman Bentsionovich Plotke (born 1924, Riga), a carpenter, and Lea Bentsionovna Plotke (née Berzon) (born 1925, Riga), a housewife.

She completed Riga Secondary School No. 9 in 1968 and trained as a nurse at the Latvian SSR Red Cross and Red Crescent Nursing Courses (1970).

Career:

  • 1966 – orderly at the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics.

  • 1966–1967 – orderly at City Polyclinic No. 7.

  • 1969–1970 – medical statistician at the Baltic Railway Hospital.

  • 1970–1973 – nurse at Riga 1st City Hospital.

  • 1973–1977 – nurse at Riga 3rd City Hospital.

Benita was married to Lazer (Lazar) Nohumovich Berelovich (born 1948, Riga), with whom she had a son Ilya Lazerovich Berelovich (born 1971, Riga).

In December 1977, Benita Berelovich received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her aunt, Ida Bentsionovna Trubkina (née Berzon) (born 1923, Riga), had been living since 1971.

In 1978, she moved to Australia.

Family:

  • [[en:people:plotke_zalaman|Zalaman Bentsionovich Plotke]] (born 1924) – father

  • [[en:people:plotke_lea|Lea Bentsionovna Plotke]] (née Berzon) (born 1925) – mother

  • [[en:people:trubkina_ida|Ida Bentsionovna Trubkina]] (née Berzon) (born 1923) – aunt, mother’s sister

  • [[en:people:berelovich_lazer|Lazer (Lazar) Nohumovich Berelovich]] (born 1948) – husband

  • Ilya Lazerovich Berelovich (born 1971) – son