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Fiks Naum Vladimirovich (1906)

Personal data
SurnameFiks
NameNaum
PatronymVladimirovich
Birth year1906
Birth month8
Birth day5
Birth placeKorosten
SexM

Fiks Naum Vladimirovich (5 August 1906, Korosten, Zhytomyr region) — dentist.

Naum Fiks was the son of Wulf (Vladimir) Fiks (1876, Korosten — 1943) and Feiga Fiks (1877–1953).

From 1925 to 1930, he worked as an unskilled laborer and mechanic in Korosten. From 1930 to 1932 — storekeeper. From 1932 to 1934 — head of supply at a repair and construction office in Korosten. From 1934 to 1937 — head of хозяйственная часть (administrative/maintenance unit).

In 1937, he moved to Dushanbe, where he worked as head of the administrative unit and at the same time studied at a dental school.

From 1940 to 1944, he worked as a dental technician in polyclinics of the People’s Commissariat and Ministry of Health of the Tajik SSR. In 1944–1945 — dental technician in a laboratory of the Western Front. From 1945 to 1947 — dental technician in a prosthetics laboratory in Dushanbe.

In 1947, he moved with his family to Riga, where until 1953 he worked as a dentist. In 1953–1954 — dentist at the sanatorium “Sosnovaya Roshcha” in Bulduri. From 1954 to 1956 — instructor of sanitary education at the sanitary-epidemiological service in Riga. From 1956 onward — dentist at various enterprises in Riga.

In marriage with Tsilya Fix (née Grinshpun) (1912–1967), he had two sons: Leonid Fix (1933) and David Fix (1936).

In 1965, Naum Fiks applied for emigration to Israel, invited by his wife’s sister, Friderika Gurfinkel (née Grinshpun) (1925). Permission to leave was granted in 1971.

Family:

Tsilya Fiks (née Grinshpun) (1912–1967) — wife
Leonid Fiks (1933) — son
David Fiks (1936) — son
Wulf (Vladimir) Fiks (1876–1943) — father
Feiga Fiks (1877–1953) — mother
Eva Rabinovich (née Fiks) (1903) — sister
Sonya Sheynis (née Fiks) (1909–1943) — sister
Friderika Gurfinkel (née Grinshpun) (1925) — wife’s sister