Ioffe Efim Samuilovich (b. 14 October 1927, Kharkov) — car mechanic.

In 1941 Efim Ioffe completed seven grades of secondary school. Together with his parents he was evacuated to Kyrgyzstan. In 1945 the family moved to Krustpils. He served in the Soviet Army from 1945 to 1951 as a rangefinder in the anti-aircraft artillery.

In 1951 he began working at the motor depot of the Krustpils sugar factory as a car mechanic. Without changing his place of work, he later held positions as mechanic, head of the garage and workshops, and supervisor of the unit and assembly section. He retired in 1988.

He was awarded the medal “30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy” (1948), the medal “For Valiant Labour in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin” (1970), and the medal “Veteran of Labour.”

In 1956 he married Valentina Aleksandrovna Ioffe (née Zhitomirskaya, formerly Belaya) (b. 1930) and adopted her daughter Bella Zhitomirskaya (b. 1953). From the marriage a son, Alexander Ioffe (b. 1958), was born.

In 1978 Bella married Efim Dolgoy (b. 1948) and in 1979 emigrated to Israel, later moving to the United States.

Family:

Emilia Pogreb (née Ioffe) (b. 1923) — sister
Evgenia Odes (née Ioffe) (b. 1930) — sister
Valentina Aleksandrovna Ioffe (née Zhitomirskaya, formerly Belaya) (b. 1930) — wife
Bella Efimovna Dolgaya (née Ioffe, formerly Zhitomirskaya) (b. 1953) — daughter
Alexander Efimovich Ioffe (b. 1958) — son