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Borde Romana-Rozalia (1895-1960)

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SurnameBorde
NameRomana-Rozalia
Birth year1895
Birth month11
Birth day19
Birth placeWarsaw
Death year1960
SexF

Borde (née Luxemburg) Romana-Rozalia (born 19 November 1895, Warsaw – died 4 July 1960, Krasnoyarsk) – wife of Isaak Borde, lawyer and nurse.

Romana-Rozalia’s father, Józef Luxemburg, was the brother of Rosa Luxemburg, the renowned figure of the German labour movement; her mother was Yevgenia (née Lindenfeld).

She graduated from the Warsaw Women’s Gymnasium and completed a Red Cross nursing course in Moscow. She worked as a nurse in hospitals in Moscow and the Caucasus, and at the end of the First World War, in Valka, where she met her future husband Isaak Borde (they married ten years later). In 1922, she graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Polish People's University in Warsaw. From 1929, she lived in Riga.

On 14 June 1941, Romana-Rozalia Borde and her two children were deported to Siberia, to the Kansk District of Krasnoyarsk Krai. In order to support herself and her children, she worked as a nurse (from which she was dismissed as a “socially dangerous element”) and as a seamstress. From 1957, she lived in Krasnoyarsk.