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Lurie Hanna (1894)

Personal data
SurnameLurie
NameHanna
Birth year1894
Birth month9
Birth day7
Birth placeDaugavpils
SexF

Lurie Hanna (née Levenshtein) (7 September 1894, Daugavpils) — worker.

In 1900 Hanna Lourie’s family moved to Liepāja. After the death of her parents, she lived together with her brother. In 1923 she completed eight classes at the Liepāja Russian Gymnasium. After her marriage in 1922, Hanna Lourie went to Buenos Aires in search of work; in 1927, owing to her husband’s illness, the family returned to Liepāja. From 1932 she lived with her family in Riga. During the years of evacuation she was in Kazan, where she worked at local leather-goods and garment factories. After returning to Riga, from 1945 to 1953 she worked as a timekeeper at the Riga Hydroelectric Power Station; from 1956 to 1957 she was a worker in the artel “Liesma” of the Latvian Cooperative of Invalids.

Hanna Lurie’s parents, Tevel Levenshtein (1858–1915), a native of Jēkabpils, and Hesse Levenshtein (née Vitebskaya) (1861–1913), born in Belarus, are buried in Liepāja. Her brother, German Levenshtein (1889), left in 1926 to seek work in the Union of South Africa and in the 1960s lived in Johannesburg. Her husband, Barukh Yuda Lurie (1896–1940), a timber grader and employee of the Riga Parquet Factory, failed to evacuate and was detained at his workplace in 1941; according to information Hanna Lourie received from former ghetto prisoner Grigory Levin, he perished in the Riga Ghetto.

Family members:

Luis Lurie (1922) — son
Zalman Lurie (1928) — son
Barukh Yuda Lurie (1896–1940) — husband
German Levenshtein (1889) — brother
Tevel Levenshtein (1858–1915) — father
Hesse Levenshtein (née Vitebskaya) (1861–1913) — mother