Berzon(Bersohn) (née Tsentsiper) Sofia Borisovna (January 17, 1933, Riga) – worker.

Family and Early Life:

Sofia Berzon was born into the family of Boris Vulfovich Tsentsiper (1895, Preili – killed in Riga, 1941) and Pesya Yakovlevna Tsentsiper (Plavina) (1902, Preili – died in 1941 (1942), Muroshi village, Kirov Oblast).

In 1940 Sofia Berzon started first grade at a seven-year school.

In 1941 she was evacuated to Kirov Province, where her mother passed away. Sofia was sent to the Latvian orphanage (Kumeny village, Kirov Province), which returned to Riga in 1945. In Riga she completed seven-year school (1948) and dental technician school (1951).

Career:

  • 1951–1954: Apprentice cutter at the Electra fur factory.

  • 1955–1957: Cutter, then worker at Cīņa artel.

  • 1957–1959: Furrier-cutter at the sewing factory under the Riga City Executive Committee's Local Industry Department.

  • 1959–1960: Furrier and cutter at the Fantasia factory.

  • 1964–1980: Worked at Electra factory after a brief period of homemaking.

Family Life:

Sofia was married to Zalman Bentsionovich Berzon (born 1927). They had two sons:

Bentsion Zalmanovich Berzon (1954, Riga) and Boris Zalmanovich Berzon (1961, Jurmala).

Emigration:

In 1980 Sofia Berzon received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her husband’s sister, Ida Bentsionovna Trubkina (née Berzon) (born 1923), had lived since 1971.

Relatives:

  • Father: Boris Vulfovich Tsentsiper (1895–1941).

  • Mother: Pesya Yakovlevna Tsentsiper (Plavina) (1902–1941 (1942)).

  • Husband: [[en:people:berzon_zalman|Zalman Bentsionovich Berzon]] (born 1927).

  • Sons: [[en:people:berzon_bentsion_1954|Bentsion Zalmanovich Berzon]] (1954) and [[en:people:berzon_boris|Boris Zalmanovich Berzon]] (1961).

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