Levshtein (Lewinstein) (Kur) Sheina Elyaevna (4 February 1932, Riga) — worker.

Sheina Levinshtein was born into the family of workers Elya Tevelevich Kur(1896, Dvinsk — today Daugavpils — killed by the Nazis in the Riga Ghetto in 1941) and Khana Leibovna Kur (Neiman) (1899, Sabile, Latvia – 1962, Riga). Together with her mother, her aunt and her younger brother, she was evacuated to the Gorky region, where they lived until the end of the Second World War (1941–1945). She returned to Riga in 1945 and completed the Workers’ Evening School in 1953.

She worked as a winder at the “Merino” textile factory (1950–1953), as a seamstress at the “Sadarbs” cooperative (1953–1959), at the sewing factory of the Riga City Executive Committee’s Department of Local Industry (1959–1960), at the sewing therapeutic-production workshop (1960–1961), at the “Latvlegsnavsbyt” workshops (1962–1967), and as a dyer at the home-work enterprise (1967–1972).

She and Abram Ilyich Levshtein (1926, Dvinsk) had a son, Gennady Abramovich Levshtein (1954, Riga), and twins, Asya Abramovna Levshtein (1958, Riga) and Ilya Abramovich Levshtein (1958, Riga).

In 1972, Sheina Levinshtein received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her uncle, Auva Davidovich Shamir (1901, Jerusalem), resided.

Family:

Elya Tevelevich Kur (1896–1941) — father
Khana Leibovna (1899–1962) Kur (Neiman) — mother

Genok Elyasovich Kur (1925, Riga – killed on the WWII front near Staraya 	Russa in 1943) — brother\\

Simon Elyasovich Kur (1927, Riga) — brother (emigrated to Israel in 1975)
Abram Ilyich Levshtein (1926) — husband
Gennady Abramovich Levshtein (1954) — son
Asya Abramovna Levshtein (1958) — daughter
Ilya Abramovich Levshtein (1958) — son
Auva Davidovich Shamir (1901) — uncle