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SurnameVald
NameGrigory
PatronymBorisovich
Birth year1938
Birth month3
Birth day18
birth_placeKharkiv, Ukraine

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Levit Gesya Zelikovna (1921)

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SurnameLevit
NameGesya
PatronymZelikovna
Birth year1921
Birth month2
Birth day15
birth_placeLudza

Levit (Lewit) (née Druyan) Gesya Zelikovna (born 15 February 1921, Ludza) — saleswoman.

After completing the Jewish school in Ludza, Gesya Druyan worked from 1934 to 1940 as a saleswoman in A. Super’s haberdashery shop in Ludza. In 1940–1941 she was a cashier at the confectionery shop of the Ludza District Consumers’ Union.

During the war she was evacuated: in 1941 she worked as a kolkhoz labourer in the village of Pogiblovka, Buturlino District, Gorky Region; in 1941–1943 she worked at the Urtaklyar state farm near the Gurgan-Tyube station, Andijan Region; and in 1943–1945 she was a packer at Pharmacy No. 3 in Grunch-Mazar, Andijan Region.

In 1960–1966 she worked as a kiosk vendor for Soyuzpechat in Riga.

Since 1949 she was married to Mozus Leonidovich Levit.

Their children are Lev Mikhailovich Levit (born 1949, Riga) and Maliya Mikhailovna Nadel

Family:

Zelik Nokhumovich Druyan (1878, Ludza – 1957, Riga) — father
Matlya Yudolovna Druyan (1885, Panevezys – 1943, Grunch-Mazar) — mother
Israel Zelikovich Druyan (born 1911, Ludza) — brother, emigrated to Israel (Ramat Gan) in 1935
Samuil Zelikovich Druyan (born 1923, Ludza) — brother, emigrated to Israel (Petah Tikva) in 1966