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Malkis Iosif Shlyomovich (1894-1967)

Personal data
SurnameMalkis
NameIosif
PatronymShlyomovich
Birth year1894
Birth month7
Birth day26
Birth placeBoguslav
Death year1967
Death placeRiga
SexM

Malkis Iosif Shlyomovich (26 July 1894, Boguslav, Kyiv Province — 1967, Riga) — laborer.

From 1906 to 1912 Iosif Malkis worked on the Steinberg farm in Boguslav; from 1912 to 1918 he worked on the Goldberg farm in Kryvyi Rih. In 1918–1928 he was a worker at the Weissman Brothers factory in Boguslav.

From 1928 he lived in Tashkent and worked as a laborer in various enterprises: in 1928–1931 in an artel of the Consumer Goods Union (Shirpotrebsouz); in 1931–1933 in saddle and harness production under TashKustPromSoyuz; in 1933–1934 in a shoemaking workshop of the cooperative of employees and troops of the Air Defense Training Unit (PPO TPU); in 1934–1937 again in Shirpotrebsouz; in 1937–1939 in a vocational-technical school; in 1939–1940 in UzSpetstorg; in 1940–1946 in the artel “15 Years of the Uzbek SSR”; in 1946–1947 in the artel “12 December”; and in 1947–1952 in the artel “Iskra.”

Since 1918 he was married to Maria Borisovna Malkis. Their sons were Nikolai Iosifovich Malkis (1920, Boguslav — 1943, ?), who was killed at the front during World War II, and Efim Iosifovich Malkis. Their daughters were Anna Iosifovna Malkis (1919, Boguslav — 1980, Riga), a pharmacist; Faina Iosifovna Rivash (née Malkis) (1922, Boguslav — 1981, ?), who emigrated to Israel (Haifa) in 1958 via Poland in connection with the repatriation of her husband Ilya Matveevich Rivash (?, ? — ?, ?); Fruma Iosifovna Zolotoreva (née Malkis) (1924, Boguslav — ?, ?), a dentist; and Sarra Iosifovna Tsvilikhovskaya.

His father was Shlema Mortkhovich Malkis (1857, Boguslav — 1930, ?), and his mother Khaia Motkovna Malkis (1857, Boguslav — 1926, ?). His brother was Grigory Shlyomovich Malkis (1879, Boguslav — 1950, ?), and his sister Faina Shlyomovna Tarnavskaya (1892, Boguslav — ?, ?).