Garfinkel (née Demikovskaya) Dora (Dveira) Zalmanovna (b. 1928, Dzerzhinsk, Donetsk Region) – seamstress.

Dora Garfinkel was the daughter of Zalman Demikhovsky (1904, Konotop – 1938, Konstantinovka) and Asna Demikhovskaya (1903, Shchedrinsk – 1976, Riga).

In 1941, Dora Garfinkel was evacuated to Kyzylorda in the Kazakh SSR, where she worked as a knitter at the Chelyuskintsy artel until 1945. Upon returning to the Donetsk Region in 1945, she worked as a secretary at the glass factory in Konstantinovka until 1947.

That year, she moved to Riga and was employed until 1949 at the Blazma artel. In 1958, she worked as a seamstress at the Rīgas Aditājs factory, and from 1963 at the Rīgas Apģērbs firm.

She was married to Gilel Garfinkel (b. 1927, Ludza), with whom she had two daughters: Zhanetta Garfinkel (b. 1951, Riga) and Natella Garfinkel (b. 1958, Riga).

In 1971, Dora Garfinkel received permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family:

Gilel Girshevich Garfinkel (b. 1927, Ludza) – husband
Zhanetta Gilelevna Garfinkel (b. 1951, Riga) – daughter
Natella Gilelevna, Garfinkel (b. 1958, Riga) – daughter
Zalman Demikhovsky (1904, Konotop – 1938, Konstantinovka) – father
Asna Demikhovskaya (1903, Shchedrinsk – 1976, Riga) – mother
Aron Zalmanovich, Demikhovsky (b. 1935, Konstantinovka, Donetsk Region) – brother