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Kirilyuk Faina Yudimovna (1915)

Personal data
SurnameKirilyuk
NameFaina
PatronymYudimovna
Birth year1915
Birth month12
Birth day5
Birth placeKlimovichi
SexF

Kirilyuk (née Levitina) Faina Yudimovna (5 December 1915, Klimovichi, Mogilev District – ?) — accountant.

In 1933 Faina Kirilyuk completed 3 classes of secondary school in Klimovichi. That same year moved with her family to Dnepropetrovsk (now- Dnipro). From 1933 to 1943 worked as an accountant at the Volodarsky Factory. In 1941, together with other factory workers, was evacuated to Andijan, Uzbek SSR. In 1944–46 worked as an accountant at ORS Dneprovspromstroy in Dnepropetrovsk. In 1947–48 — deputy chief accountant at the Dnepropetrovsk catering cooperative artel. In 1948 — accountant at the installation section of DSE. In 1948–52 — chief accountant at the Zhovten artel. In 1952–53 — clerk at the cutting shop of the factory “20th Congress of the CPSU.” In 1963–64 — accountant at the Dnepropetrovsk Universal Supply and Sales Office. In 1964–65 — clerk-receiver of orders at a shoe repair and tailoring factory. In 1965–66 — accountant at Enterprise No. 186. In 1966–71 — accountant at the Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant.

In 1971 Faina Kirilyuk retired and moved to Riga. In 1979 worked as a home-based seamstress at the Sarma combine.

In her first marriage to Nikolai Kirilyuk (b. 1918, Dnepropetrovsk; marriage dissolved in 1965), a daughter was born: Maya Grinchenko (née Kirilyuk) (b. 1945, Dnepropetrovsk).

In 1972 she married Yefim Khaldei (b. 1918, Klimovichi, Mogilev Oblast).

During the Holocaust her parents, Yudim Levitin (1888, Klimovichi – 1941, Dnepropetrovsk) and Rachel Levitina (née Shukhman) (1885, Klimovichi – 1941, Dnepropetrovsk), her brother Semyon Levitin (1925, Klimovichi – 1941, Dnepropetrovsk), and sisters Raisa Fiksel (née Levitina) (1914, Klimovichi – 1941, Dnepropetrovsk) and Vera Levitina (1923, Klimovichi – 1941, Dnepropetrovsk) were murdered. Her brother Leiba Levitin (b. 1911, Klimovichi) was living in Jūrmala in the 1980s.

In 1980 Faina Kirilyuk received permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family:

Nikolai Kirilyuk (b. 1918, Dnepropetrovsk) – first husband
Maya Grinchenko (née Kirilyuk) (b. 1945, Dnepropetrovsk) – daughter
Yefim Khaldei (b. 1918, Klimovichi, Mogilev Oblast) – second husband
Yudim Levitin (1888–1941) – father
Rachel Levitina (née Shukhman) (1885–1941) – mother
Leiba Levitin (b. 1911) – brother
Semyon Levitin (1925–1941) – brother
Raisa Fiksel (née Levitina) (1914–1941) – sister
Vera Levitina (1923–1941) – sister