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Ershova Raisa Isakovna (1909)

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SurnameErshova
NameRaisa
PatronymIsakovna
Birth year1909
Birth month1
Birth day16
Birth placeLudza
SexF

Ershova (Yershova/Jerschova) (née Kovnator) Raisa Isakovna (16 January 1909, Ludza) — housewife.

Raisa Ershova was born into the family of Isak Kovnator (1872, Ludza – 1937, Ludza) and Sheina Kovnator (1874, Ludza – 1922, Riga). She completed five grades at the Ludza Jewish lower secondary school. In 1937, she married Isak Ershov (1887, Ludza – 1958, Ludza) and remained a housewife until the late 1960s. During the evacuation to the Gorky Region, she worked on the collective farm “Path to Communism” in the Fokino village council of Vorotynsky District.

Her sister, Leah Dromi (née Kovnator) (b. 1900, Ludza), was living in Israel by the late 1960s. In 1969, Raisa Ershova received permission to emigrate from Latvia.

Kovnator Isak (1872, Ludza – 1937, Ludza) — father
Kovnator Sheina (1874, Ludza – 1922, Riga) — mother
Kovnator Ilya (b. 1903, Ludza) — brother
Bella Gutman (née Kovnator) (b. 1922, Ludza) — sister
Leah Dromi (née Kovnator) (b. 1900, Ludza) — sister
Isak Ershov (1887, Ludza – 1958, Ludza) — husband