Levinshtein (Lewinstein) (née Shvey) Genya Veniaminovna (born 25 September 1932, Perm) — technician-technologist.

Genya Levinshtein was born in Perm to a family of craftsmen: her father, Veniamin Meyerovich Shvey (born 1893, Dvinsk), a roofer, was repressed in 1937 and died in 1944; he was posthumously rehabilitated in 1957. Her mother, Masha Leybovna Shvey (née Fisherman) (born 1899, Dvinsk), worked as a seamstress and died in Perm in 1938.

After her mother’s death Genya lived with her aunt in Sverdlovsk (today Yekaterinburg), where she completed seven grades at School No. 5 (1939–1946). She worked as a copyist at the Ural branch of the Teploelektroproekt Institute (1946–1958), while finishing ten grades of the Sverdlovsk secondary school and studying at a construction technical school.

In 1958 she relocated to Riga, where she worked as a copyist at the Riga branch of the Teploelektroproekt Institute (1958–1965), and later as a technologist and engineer-technologist at the Civil Aviation Experimental Plant (1965–1987).

She was married to Rafail Samuilovich Levinshtein (born 1928, Riga); the couple had no children.

In 1987 Genya Levinshtein received permission for a three-month visit to Israel to see her cousin Bentsion Veniaminovich Shvey (born 1917, Dvinsk).

Family:

Veniamin Meyerovich Shvey (1893–1944) — father
Masha Leybovna Shvey (née Fisherman) (1899–1938) — mother
Rafail Samuilovich Levinshtein (born 1928, Riga) — husband
Bentsion Veniaminovich Shvey (born 1917) — cousin

Note: According to other documents, her cousin was Bentsion Yakovlevich Shvey (born 1916, Rezekne), who emigrated to Israel in 1973, where his daughter from his first marriage, Sima Bentsionovna Golanskaya (née Shvey) (born 1945, Riga), resided.