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Hendel Dora Abramovna (1922)

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SurnameHendel
NameDora
PatronymAbramovna
Birth year1922
Birth month3
Birth day25
Birth placeDaugavpils
SexF

Hendel (Gendel) (née Glik) Dora Abramovna (25 March 1922, Daugavpils) – historian.

Dora Hendel held a higher education degree. During World War II, she was evacuated to the Uzbek SSR, where from 1941 to 1942 she worked on the Stalin kolkhoz in the Fergana region, from 1942 to 1944 at a military factory in Tashkent, and until 1945 studied at Vocational School No. 5 in Tashkent.

After the war, she moved to Riga, where in 1945–1946 she worked as a proofreader for the newspaper Na Strazhe Rodiny (On Guard for the Motherland). From 1945 to 1950, she studied at the Faculty of History at the University of Latvia (LGU), and in 1952–1953 completed her final year via the correspondence programme.

From 1953 to 1954, she worked as a proofreader at the Latvian State Publishing House in Riga.

In 1958, Dora Hendel applied for permission to emigrate to the Polish People's Republic.

On 23 August 1946, she married Khaim-Lev Isearovich Hendel. They had two children: Mark Khaimovich Hendel (b. 1955) and Karmela Khaimovna Hendel (b. 1958)