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Dunavetskaya Genya Movshovna (1904)

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SurnameDunavetskaya
NameGenya
PatronymMovshovna
Birth year1904
Birth month6
Birth day15
Birth placeKrāslava
SexF

Dunavetskaya (Dunawetzky) (née Beilina) Genya Movshovna (15 June 1904, Krāslava) — Domestic worker

Genya Dunavetskaya completed four years of primary education and from 1915 to 1932 worked in private households as a nanny and maid. During evacuation from 1941–44, she lived in Nagorskoye village, Slobodsky District, Kirov Oblast, where she was employed in domestic labour.

Following her return, between 1944 and 1958 she undertook temporary work in Daugavpils. From 1958 to 1960 she was a home-based knitter for the “Raznoprom” artel, and from 1960 to 1966 worked as a home-based worker for the Daugavpils Domestic Services Combine.

In 1932 she married Yakov Solomonovich Dunavetsky (born 1906, Daugavpils), who disappeared in 1941 in Daugavpils and was never found. She had four children.

Children:

Out of wedlock: Tsadok Movshovich Beilin (born 1922, Krāslava), who emigrated with his family to Israel (Tel Aviv) in 1966

David Yakovlevich Dunavetsky (born 1933, Daugavpils)

Solomon Yakovlevich Dunavetsky (date of birth unknown)

Out of wedlock: Minna Samuilovna Matsevich (born 1947, Daugavpils), who later emigrated to Israel

Parents:

Movsha Israelovich Beilin (b. 1880, Krāslava – d. 1941, Krāslava), and Mina Davidovna Beilina (née Bobrina; b. 1878, Krāslava – d. 1941), both perished in the Holocaust

Siblings:

Hona Movshovich Beilin (b. 1906, Krāslava)

Haim Movshovich Beilin (1908, Krāslava – 1945), killed near the Oder River, buried in a mass grave in the GDR

Rahmil Movshovich Beilin (1910, Krāslava – 1941), killed in action near Naro-Fominsk, interred in a communal grave

Partner: Samuil Mendelovich Stern (d. 1954, Daugavpils)

In 1980, Genya Dunavetskaya emigrated to Israel.