Gelfand (née Kovelman) Brukha (Brucha) Aronovna (9 December 1918, Uman, Cherkasy Region) – physician.
Brukha Gelfand graduated from secondary school in Uman in 1935 and from the Kyiv Medical Institute in 1940.
From 1940 to 1941, she worked as the head of a medical district in the village of Krasnopolka, Uman District. During 1941–1942, she served as chief of the medical service for the 245th Detachment of the Line Signal Battalion in Field Mobile Hospital No. 32 on the Southwestern Front. From 1942 to 1945, she worked as a surgical resident in Field Mobile Hospital No. 284 and Evacuation Hospital No. 365 on the 2nd Ukrainian Front.
In 1945–1946, she served as a doctor at the 60th Military Food Supply Point of the Southern Group of Forces. From 1946 to 1948, she was a resident doctor at the Riga Institute of Traumatology and Surgery, and from 1948 to 1952, an on-duty physician at Riga’s 4th Polyclinic. In 1952–1953, she worked as a general practitioner at Smolensk’s 2nd Clinical Hospital. From 1953 to 1964, she was a general practitioner, and from 1964 onward, a physiotherapist at Riga’s 4th United City Hospital.
Brukha Gelfand was awarded the medal For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.
She was married to Lev (Levoy) Gelfand (b. 1914, Vinnytsia Region; divorced in 1956), with whom she had a son, Arkady Gelfond (b. 1946, Brașov, Romania).
Her parents, Aron Kovelman (b. 1891, Ukraine – d. 1941, Uman District) and Tsipa Kovelman (née Zak) (b. 1891, Ukraine – d. 1941, Uman District), were murdered in the Holocaust. Her sister, Menikha Kovelman (b. 1908, Uman, Cherkasy Region), lived in Lithuania in the postwar years.
In 1971, Brukha Gelfand received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her cousin, Tzionah Furman (née Kovelman) (b. 1928, Ukraine).
Family:
Lev (Levoy) Gelfand (b. 1914, Vinnytsia Region) – husband (divorced in 1956)
Arkady Gelfond (b. 1946, Brașov, Romania) – son
Aron Kovelman (1891–1941, Uman District) – father
Tsipa Kovelman (née Zak) (1891–1941, Uman District) – mother
Menikha Kovelman (b. 1908, Uman) – sister
Tzionah Furman (née Kovelman) (b. 1928, Ukraine) – cousin