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Fisher Beila Leibovna (1920)

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SurnameFisher
NameBeila
PatronymLeibovna
Birth year1920
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Fisher (Fischer) (née Kivoinik; in her first marriage — Glezer) Beila Leibovna (born 1920, Riga) was an office employee. She had seven years of formal education. From 1937 to 1941 she worked as a weaver at the textile factory “Kurt Siegel” in Riga. During the war years she was evacuated to Chelyabinsk, where she worked at the Kirov plant. From 1945 she was a homemaker. In 1957 she repatriated with her husband to Israel, where she worked as a telephone operator at a telephone exchange. In 1959 she received permission to repatriate with her family to the Polish People’s Republic.

She was married to Israel Meerovich Fisher. Their children were Lev Israelovich Fisher (born 1945), Marik Israelovich Fischer (born 1947), and Khaya Israelovna Fischer (born 1950). She was the daughter of Sheina Khanovna Kivoinik (1889, Dvinsk — 1961, Riga), a seamstress. Her sisters included Asya Leibovna Ulfkelman (née Kivoinik) (born 1912, Riga), who emigrated to Israel in 1964, Nekhama Leybovna Kivoinik, and Roza Leibovna Zilberbrant (born 1925, Riga), who worked as a seamstress in an atelier.