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Deich Gita (1907)

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SurnameDeich
NameGita
Birth year1907
Birth month1
Birth day31
Birth placeLiepāja
SexF

DEICH (DEITCH) (née Koch) Gita Lvovna (b. 31 January 1907, Liepāja – ?, ?) – Seamstress.

After completing secondary school, Gita Deich trained at the ORT sewing school in Liepāja from 1924 to 1927. Between 1927 and 1932, she worked as a seamstress in a tailor's workshop, and from 1932 to 1941, at the “Gentleman” garment factory in Riga. During World War II (1941–1945), she was evacuated to the Lenin kolkhoz in Jizzakh, Samarkand Region, Uzbek SSR. In 1945–46, she was employed at “Baltijas Modes Ateljē” in Riga. From 1961 to 1964, she worked as a sales assistant at Store No. 71 of Riga’s 2nd City Trade Trust; from 1964 to 1968, she was a warehouse clerk at the Riga Electric Lamp Factory; and from 1968 to 1971, a night guard at the Sarkanā Oktobris production association.

Since 1938, she was married to David Lvovich Deich. Their daughters were Polina Davidovna Gordina and Rita Davidovna Deich.

Her father, Lev Abramovich Koch (b. 1878, Liepāja – ?, Riga), and mother, Polina Movshovna Koch (b. 1880, Bobruisk – ?, Riga), perished during the German occupation. Her brothers Herman Lvovich Koch (b. 1901, Liepāja – ?, Liepāja) and Simon Lvovich Koch (b. 1915, Liepāja – ?, Liepāja), as well as her sisters Yudit Lvovna Koch (b. 1905, Liepāja – ?, Liepāja) and Leya Lvovna Koch (b. 1915, Liepāja – ?, Riga), also died during the occupation. Sister Musya Lvovna Furet (b. 1910, Liepāja – ?, ?) emigrated to France in 1928. Another sister, Masha Lvovna Fixman (b. 1913, Liepāja – 1970, Poland), was deported from the Riga ghetto to the Stutthof concentration camp and remained in Poland after liberation.

Gita Deich emigrated to Israel in 1971.