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Krakovskaya Yudisa Aronovna (1923)

Personal data
SurnameKrakovskaya
NameYudisa
PatronymAronovna
Birth year1923
Birth month6
Birth day10
Birth placeLudza
SexF

Krakovskaya (Krakowskaya)Yudisa (Judisa) Aronovna (née Vainshtein) (10 June 1923, Ludza) — sales clerk and cashier.

Yudisa Krakovskaya received a basic secondary education in 1941 at the ORT Vocational School in Riga. From 1942 to 1944, after completing nursing courses, she worked at an evacuation hospital in the city of Cheboksary. Upon returning to Latvia, she worked as a cashier at the Ludza City Consumer Cooperative from 1945 to 1946, and as a sales clerk for the Riga Food Trade Organization from 1946 to 1948. From 1949 onward, she was a homemaker, supported by her husband, Yakov Krakovsky (1921).

Member of the Komsomol (VLKSM) from 1941 to 1949.

Her brother and sister, Moisei Vainshtein (1911–1940) and Fanya Isemin (née Vainshtein) (1902–1940), perished in Latvia during the German occupation. Her sister Khasya Vainshtein (1915–1942) died during the war. Her sisters Tova Kimkhi (née Vainshtein) (1913) and Etya Vainshtein (1918) lived and worked in Israel in the 1970s (Tova since 1939, Etya since 1968).

Family:

Yakov Krakovsky (1921) — husband
Fruma Vainshtein (date of birth unknown – 1942) — mother
Aron Vainshtein (date of birth unknown – 1936) — father
Mikhail Krakovsky (1949) — son
Rimma Krakovskaya (1953) — daughter
Semen Vainshtein (1908) — brother
Moisey Vainshtein (1911–1940) — brother
Lyuba Rabinovich (née Vainshtein) (1902) — sister
Tova Kimkhi (née Vainshtein) (1913) — sister
Khasya Vainshtein (1915–1942) — sister
Etya Vainshtein (1918) — sister
Fanya Isemin (née Vainshtein) (1902–1940) — sister