Mintz (Sternin) Elka Girshevna (24 December 1910, Vitebsk, Belarus) — seamstress.
Elka Mintz was born into the family of a tailor, Girsh Khaimovich Sternin (1883, Vitebsk – 1960, Riga), and a homemaker, Zisle Davidovna Sternina (1882, Vitebsk – 1961, Riga). In 1924, she graduated from the Jewish ORT special school in Riga. From 1924 to 1940, she worked in Riga as a privately employed seamstress, and in 1940–1941 as a seamstress at Shop No. 152.
During the Second World War, she was evacuated to the Chuvash ASSR, where she worked on a local collective farm (1941–1944). She returned to Riga in 1944. In 1947–1952, she was convicted under Article 118 of the Criminal Code and served a term of imprisonment. After her release, she worked in Riga as a seamstress at the Proletarian District industrial combine (1952), the Lenin District industrial combine (1952–1953), served as a workshop supervisor in the Society of the Deaf (1953–1957), and worked as a seamstress at Shop No. 9 of the Textile–Clothing–Footwear Trade Organization (1957–1958). From 1958 to 1964, she was a homemaker. She later worked as a seamstress at Shop No. 34 (1964–1967) and as a junior sales clerk at Shop No. 10 (1967–1968).
In marriage with Iosif Mintz (1911, Riga), three children were born: Lev Mintz (1941, Riga), Rosa Mintz (1945–1945, Riga), and Movsha Mintz (1946, Riga).
In 1975, Elka Mintz received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1971 her son Lev Mintz (1941) had been living.
Family:
Girsh Khaimovich Sternin) (1883–1960) — father
Zisle Davidovna Sternin (1882–1961) — mother
Mary Girshevna Edelhaus (née Sternin) (1907, Vitebsk) — sister
Hanna Girshevna Levinshtein) (1921, Riga) — sister
Pesakh Girshevich Sternin (1916, Kazan – killed in action in 1942) — brother
Motl Girshevich Sternin (1920, Kazan – killed in action in 1944) — brother
Semen Girshevich Sternin (1924, Riga) — brother
Iosif Movshevich Mintz (1911) — husband
Lev Iosifovich Mintz (1941) — son
Rosa Iosifovna Mintz (1945–1945) — daughter
Movsha Yazepovich Mintz (1946) — son