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Grubert Etel Henrikhovna (1909)

Personal data
SurnameGrubert
NameEtel
PatronymHenrikhovna
Birth year1909
Birth month5
Birth day19
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Grubert Etel Henrikhovna (b. 19 May 1909, Riga – date and place of death unknown) — accountant.

After completing secondary school, Etel Grubert worked from 1928 to 1930 as a bookkeeper at a leather goods workshop, and from 1930 to 1940 as a shop assistant at the Gelvin store. In 1940–41, she worked as a saleswoman for the municipal industrial trade network.

During the wartime evacuation (1941–44), she worked on the “Stalingrad” collective farm in the village of Sigachi, Pervomaysky District, Chuvash ASSR. After returning, she worked from 1944 to 1946 as a bookkeeper at a repair plant; from 1946 to 1948 — controller in the inspection and accounting office; in 1949 — bookkeeper at Repair Plant No. 29; from 1950 to 1951 — accountant at the “Vidzeme” restaurant.

Between 1951 and 1959, she was a saleswoman and then senior saleswoman at Riga’s Second Municipal Industrial Trade Organisation. From 1959 to 1964, she worked as a cashier at the catering trust, from 1964 to 1965 — senior saleswoman at the ORS of the Baltic Railway, and from 1965 to 1977 — cashier-controller in Canteen No. 52. In 1978, she worked as a cashier-controller at Enterprise No. 36.

Her father, Henrikh Grubert (b. 1877, Riga – 1942, Sigachi, Chuvash ASSR), died in evacuation. Her mother, Paya Solomonovna Grubert (née Rabinovich) (1884, Riga – 1968, Riga).

Her brothers Meer Henrikhovich Grubert (1909–1941, Riga) and Shleima Henrikhovich Grubert (1921–1941, Riga) were killed during the Nazi occupation. Her sisters Doba Henrikhovna Kreyman (b. 1912, Riga – 1941, Riga) and Hana Henrikhovna Skutelskaya were also killed during the occupation. Another sister, Hana Henrikhovna Skutelskaya, survived.

Her cousin, Chaya Khozyasovna Halfina (b. 1912, Jaunjelgava), emigrated to Israel in 1969 (settling in Neve-Sharett).