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Grinberg Revekka Moiseyevna (1921)

Personal data
SurnameGrinberg
NameRevekka
PatronymMoiseyevna
Birth year1921
Birth month4
Birth day1
Birth placeDaugavpils
SexF

Grinberg (née Blashtein) Revekka Moiseyevna (1 April 1921, Daugavpils – ?, ?) — retail worker.

In 1934, after completing seven years of schooling at the Jewish school in Daugavpils and following the death of her mother,Revekka Grinberg moved with her family to Riga. From 1939 to 1941, she worked as a seamstress at the private enterprise of Zahodnis.

From 1941 to 1946, she was evacuated to Molotov Oblast (Perm), where she worked on a collective farm. In 1949–1950, she was employed as a shop assistant at a retail outlet of the Industrial Cooperative of the Jūrmala District (Riga). In 1951, she worked first as a buffet attendant at the Smiltene District Consumers’ Union tea house, then as an ice cream vendor for the Riga Dairy Plant, and later as a street vendor for the Consumers’ Union artel of the Riga City Fish Combine.

From 1952 to 1953, she worked (possibly as a brush-maker) at the Soceksit artel; from 1953 to 1954, she was a street vendor at the “Riga” restaurant; from 1954 to 1957, a buffet worker at the “Lāčplēsis” cinema.

In 1962–1963, she worked as an orderly at Riga Polyclinic No. 4. From 1969 to 1973, she was employed seasonally as a nanny at Children’s Institution No. 1.

Mendel Abramovich Grinberg - husband

Lev Mendelevich Grinberg (b. 13 July 1959, Riga) - son.

Yufa (née Grinberg) Yevgenia Mendelevna - daughter

Moisey Edidovich Blashtein (1888, Leningrad – 1941, ?) - father, perished in the ghetto.

Chaya Nakhmovna Blashtein (1891, Daugavpils – 1932, Daugavpils) - mother

Edid Moiseyevich Blashtein (1924, Riga – 1941, ?) - brother, perished in the ghetto.