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Fleisher Yenta Leizerovna (1939)

Personal data
SurnameFleisher
NameYenta
PatronymLeizerovna
Birth year1939
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Fleisher (Fleischer) (née Buchbinder) Yenta (Jenta) Leizerovna (1939, Riga) - worker and later a nurse’s aide.

Yenta Fleisher was born into a working-class family: her father Leizer Buchbinder was a private trader engaged in livestock purchasing, and her mother Shore Buchbinder was a housewife. Her sister was Braina Leizerovna Abramson (née Buchbinder).

She began working at an early age. After completing six classes of a Jewish primary school in Tukums in 1930, she entered a private sewing workshop as an apprentice. In 1939 she married Iosif Abramson, and in 1940 their daughter Leia was born. When the Nazi Germany invaded, she was evacuated to the Novosibirsk region. Her husband was drafted into the Red Army in 1942 and was killed at the front. From 1941 to 1945 she worked in the dairy industry.

In 1945 Yenta Fleisher returned with her daughter to Tukums. In 1947 she married Yakov Meerovich Fleisher. In this marriage were born Eva Yakovlevna Fleisher (1951) and Misha Yakovlevich Fleisher (1954). Until 1961 she did not work, raising her children. From 1961 to 1965 she was employedas a worker at ATK-28, and from 1965 she worked as a nurse’s aide at the “Durbe” hospital.

Family:

Leizer Buchbinder – father
Shore Buchbinder – mother
Braina Leizerovna Abramson (née Buchbinder) – sister
Iosif Abramson – first husband
Leia Abramson (1940) – daughter from first marriage
Yakov Meerovich Fleisher – second husband
Eva Yakovlevna Fleisher (1951) – daughter
Misha Yakovlevich Fleisher (1954) – son

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