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Krechmer Polya Movshevna (1910)

Personal data
SurnameKrechmer
NamePolya
PatronymMovshevna
Birth year1910
Birth month9
Birth day28
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Krechmer (Kretschmer) (née Garber; first marriage – Zusman) Polya Movshevna
(b. 28 September 1910, Riga) — employee.

In 1930, Polya Krechmer graduated from secondary school. From 1930 to 1935, she worked in a fish artel, and from 1938 to 1940 — in a photo studio. During the war, she was evacuated with her son to Tashkent, where she worked as a waitress in a cafeteria.

In 1945, she returned to Riga and worked as a waitress for a year. From 1949 to 1950, she was a milliner at the factories “Rīgas apģērbs” and “Rīgas cepure,” and from 1952 she worked as a milliner at the Central Bureau of Consumer Services (KBO).

In 1959, she unsuccessfully tried to obtain permission to emigrate with her family to Israel. Since 1965, she lived in Tel Aviv.

In 1935, she married M. E. Zusman (b. 1911, Riga – d. 1941), who served in the Soviet Army. Their son was Yeshua Borisovich Krechmer.

In 1946, she married Boris Issakovich Kretschmer. Their daughter was Susanna Borisovna Kretschmer.

Father — Movsha Mendel Garber (b. 1880, Dvinsk / Daugavpils – d. 1941, Riga), chemist.

Mother — Roza Pavlovna Garber (b. 1880, Vitebsk – d. 1941, Riga).

Brothers — Mendel Movshevich Garber (b. 1902, Riga – d. 1941, Riga), lawyer; Pelya Movshevich Garber (b. 1904, Riga – d. 1941, Riga), worked in a chemical laboratory.

Sisters — Tsilya Movshevna Gurevich (b. 1906, Riga – ?), lived in Canada since 1948, head of a paper warehouse; Rakhil Movshevna Gurisl (b. 1908, Riga – ?), lived in Israel since 1958.