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Galperina Mira Berkovna (1921)

Personal data
SurnameGalperina
NameMira
PatronymBerkovna
Birth year1921
Birth month2
Birth day23
Birth placeSmotrich
SexF

Galperina Mira Berkovna (born 23 February 1921, Smotrich settlement, Khmelnytskyi Region) – pharmacist.

From 1967 to 1981, Mira Galperina worked as an assistant at Pharmacy No. 16 of the Riga State Pharmacy Administration. From 1981 to 1985, she worked as a pharmacist at Pharmacy No. 27 in Riga. After 1985, she was a homemaker.

Her parents, Boris and Feiga Galperin, perished during the Second World War in Smotrich, Khmelnytskyi Region.

In her marriage to Mikhail Kestenboim (born 1916, Smotrich), they had two children: Boris Kestenboim (born 1946, Horodok District, Khmelnytskyi Region) and Fira Milshtein (née Kestenboim) (born 1954, Dunaivtsi settlement, Khmelnytskyi Region).

In 1990, she and her family received permission to emigrate to Israel, by invitation from her daughter-in-law’s sister, Larisa Tserlina (née Pasitselskaya) (born 1938, Odessa).

Family:

Mikhail Kestenboim (born 1916, Smotrich) – husband
Boris Galperin – father
Feiga Galperina – mother
Boris Kestenboim (born 1946, Horodok District) – son
Fira Milshtein (née Kestenboim) (born 1954, Dunaivtsi) – daughter
Larisa Tserlina (née Pasitselskaya) (born 1938, Odessa) – sister of daughter-in-law