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Gusinskaya Asya Mordukhovna (1920)

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SurnameGusinskaya
NameAsya
PatronymMordukhovna
Birth year1920
Birth month6
Birth day20
Birth placeZilupe
SexF

Gusinskaya (also Gusin, Shteyman) Asya Mordukhovna (20 June 1920, Zilupe) — shop assistant.

Asya Gusinskaya was the daughter of Mordukh Gusinsky (1879, Lithuania – 1942, Solikamsk) and Frida Gusinskaya (1893, Lithuania – 1957, Riga). In 1929, her family moved to Riga. From 1938 to 1941, she worked as a cashier at the Palladium cinema. In 1941, she was administratively relocated to the city of Kansk and worked at enterprises in Igarka until 1945. From 1945 to 1948, she was a cashier at a grocery store in Krasnoyarsk.

In 1948, she returned to Riga. In 1949, she worked as a weigher at the “Rīgas Zeķes” hosiery factory. From 1949 to 1952, she was a sales assistant at Store No. 36 of the ORS of the Riga NOD-1 of the Latvian Railway. In 1953, she was a bookkeeper at the “Avangard” linen factory. From 1953 to 1961 and from 1962 to 1969, she worked as a sales assistant at the 1st Riga Municipal Industrial Trade Organization. From 1970 to 1973, she was a cashier at public catering enterprises in Riga’s Proletarsky District. Starting in 1975, she worked as a shop assistant at Store No. 32 of the Riga Municipal Economic Trade Department.

Asya Gusinskaya was married twice: first to Samuil Shteyman (1912, divorced in 1957) and later to Boris Shruster (1906, Rezekne – 1974, Riga). In 1976, she received permission to emigrate to Israel.

Samuil Shteyman (1912) — first husband
Boris Shruster (1906, Rezekne – 1974, Riga) — second husband
Mordukh Gusinsky (1879, Lithuania – 1942, Solikamsk) — father
Frida Gusinskaya (1893, Lithuania – 1957, Riga) — mother
Dina Levi (née Gusinskaya) (1922, Zilupe – 1960, Riga) — sister
Yesel (Iosel) Gusinsky (1924, Zilupe) — brother
Eta Tankelovich (née Levina) (1921, Riga) — cousin