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Firzon Sofya Lazarovna (1925)

Personal data
SurnameFirzon
NameSofya
PatronymLazarovna
Birth year1925
Birth month7
Birth day15
Birth placeVinnytsia
SexF

Firzon (Firsohn) Sofya Lazarovna (15 July 1925, Vinnytsia region, Ukrainian SSR) — physician.

At the beginning of World War II, Sofya Firzon was evacuated to Andijan (Uzbek SSR), where she completed the 10th grade.

In 1942, she entered the Andijan Teachers’ Institute, where she studied until 1944.

In 1944, she returned to Vinnytsia and enrolled in the Vinnytsia Medical Institute, from which she graduated in 1949.

From 1950, she worked as a pediatrician at the City Children’s Polyclinic in Riga and concurrently at a children’s consultation clinic in the Molotov district of Riga.

Family list (full name → dates in brackets → role):

Efim Yakovlevich Firzon — husband
Elvira Firzon (1949) — daughter

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