Lerner Evgenia Samoilovna (1919, Odessa) — physician.

Evgenia Lerner graduated from the Odessa Medical Institute in 1941 and in July of that year was mobilized into the Red Army. Until 1943 she served as a regimental physician. Beginning in 1943 she headed a medical ward in the NKVD system and, until September 1944, served as chief of the sanitary unit.

From October 1944 to January 1946 she worked as a clinical resident in the surgical department of Evacuation Hospital No. 1266 and at the “Lermontovsky” health resort in Odessa.

In January 1947 she moved permanently to the Latvian SSR and was assigned to the Tukums Department of Health. She served as physician for the Engure medical district and, from 1948 onward, for the Tukums district.

Source:

Latvian State Historical Archieve Fund Nr. 440, register 2-l, file 62, l. 184.