Feldstein Khariton (Chariton) Abramovich (4 December 1918, Telenesti, Moldova) — commodities expert.
In 1936, Khariton Feldstein graduated from a gymnasium in Bălți. In 1938, he completed pharmaceutical school in Iași (Romania), qualifying as a pharmacist.
From 1937 to 1938, he worked as a bookkeeper in Ikhilevich’s private firm in Bălți. In 1938–1940, he served in the Romanian Army.
From 1940 to 1941, he worked as head of a procurement point of Glavplodovoshchorg in Korneshti. In 1941, he was evacuated to Derbent (Dagestan ASSR), where he worked as head of a wine cellar at the 2nd Leningrad Agricultural Technical School.
From 1943 to 1946, he was head of a receiving station at a vegetable base of GlavURS of the People’s Commissariat of the Oil Industry in Kagan (Uzbek SSR).
In 1946, Khariton Feldstein returned to Moldova and until 1950 worked as head of a vegetable base in the Bălți district office of the Glodeni consumer union.
In 1950, he was convicted by the people’s court of Sadgora district (Chernivtsi region) under the decree of 4 June 1947 and sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment. He served his sentence in the Amur region and was released under amnesty in 1953.
In 1953, he moved to Riga and until 1954 worked as a forwarding agent at a base of the Baltic Military District. From 1954 to 1961, he was head of a starch production workshop in Jēkabpils.
In 1958, he was again tried under Article 109 and sentenced to one year of corrective labor. From 1961 to 1962, he worked as head of a starch workshop at the Riga office of “Zagotplodovoshch.”
In 1963, he was convicted under Article 165, part 1, and sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment by the Lenin District court; he was conditionally released in 1965.
From 1965 to 1967/68, Khariton Feldstein worked as a laborer in a special construction department of the Liepāja construction trust. In 1967–1968, he worked as an engineer in a semi-finished products workshop at “Zagotplodovoshch.”
From 1968 to 1972, he worked as a commodities expert at Mobile Mechanized Column “Latmezhkolkhozstroy.” From 1972 to 1979, he worked as a laborer in the Mārupe consumer society. From 1979, he was retired.
He was married to Yenta Felshtiner (1921, Telenesti, Moldova). They had two children: Isaak Felshtiner (1943, Uzbek SSR) and Asya Zilberberg (née Felshtiner) (1948, Bălți)
During the Holocaust, his parents were murdered: Abram Feldstein (1882, Proskurov region, Ukraine — 1941(?), Bălți) and Etya Feldstein (née Sudvarg) (1893, Bălți — 1941(?), Bălți)
In 1980, Khariton Feldstein received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of his daughter.
Family:
Yenta Felshtiner (1921) — wife
Isaak Felshtiner (1943) — son
Asya Zilberberg (née Felshtiner) (1948) — daughter
Abram Feldstein (1882–1941?) — father
Etya Feldstein (née Sudvarg) (1893–1941?) — mother