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Ehrenburg Genya Davydovna (1907)

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SurnameEhrenburg
NameGenya
PatronymDavydovna
Birth year1907
Birth month10
Birth day15
Birth placeShchedrin
SexF

Ehrenburg Genya Davydovna (15.10.1907, Shchedrin township, Gomel Oblast) — shopkeeper. Daughter of Ehrenburg David (1866, Kazimirovo village — 1941, Siberia) and Ehrenburg Khava (1870, Shchedrin township, Belarus — 1937, Zhlobin). Completed 5 grades of primary school. In 1930, moved with her parents to Zhlobin. In 1930–45, worked as a shopkeeper in Zhlobin. During the evacuation, worked at a collective farm in Irkutsk Oblast. In 1956–63 — counter server at the Zhlobin City Food Trade. From 1963 — pensioner. In 1972, E. moved to Riga. E.'s first husband, Kriger Shiy (1899, Warsaw — 1943, Chernihiv), fell heroically on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. E.'s second husband, Plotkin Mikhail (1897, Gomel Oblast), adopted E.'s daughter from her first marriage, Perchikova (Kriger) Dora (1942, Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk Oblast). In 1973, E. received permission to emigrate to Israel.

A. Norman

Kriger Shiy (1899, Warsaw — 1943, Chernihiv) — first husband
Perchikova (Kriger) Dora (1942, Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk Oblast) — daughter
Plotkin Mikhail (1897, Gomel Oblast) — second husband
Ehrenburg David (1866, Kazimirovo — 1941, Siberia) — father
Ehrenburg Khava (1870, Shchedrin, Belarus — 1937, Zhlobin) — mother
Ehrenburg Khaim (1895, Shchedrin, Belarus — 1920) — brother
Ehrenburg Shmerka (1897, Shchedrin, Belarus) — brother