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Mizrokh Olga Leibovna (1911)

Personal data
SurnameMizrokh
NameOlga
PatronymLeibovna
Birth year1911
Birth month5
Birth day23
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Mizrokh (Misroch) (née Slutskina) Olga Leibovna (born 23 May 1911, Riga) — physician.

Olga Mizrokh completed secondary school in Riga in 1929. From 1929 to 1932 she was a student at the University of Tartu. From 1932 to 1936 she worked as a nurse at the tuberculosis dispensary of the charitable society “OZE,” and in 1936–37 as a radiology technician for the radiologist Khaze. Between 1937 and 1939 she was a massage nurse for Dr. Friedman, and in 1939–40 a masseuse. In 1940–41 she was a senior nurse at the 2nd City Polyclinic.

During 1941, in evacuation, she worked as a nurse at a regional hospital in Gorky. From 1941 to 1943 she was senior nurse at the Ural Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics (Sverdlovsk), and in 1943–44 a physician at the medical station of a model sewing combine (Sverdlovsk). In 1944–45 she worked as a physician at the ambulance station in Sverdlovsk. She graduated from Sverdlovsk State Medical Institute in 1946 and became an oncologist at the Sverdlovsk Physiotherapy Institute the same year.

From 1946 to 1947 she was a research associate at the Method Bureau of the Ministry of Health (Riga). Between 1947 and 1952 she was attending physician at the oncological department of the Republican Clinical Hospital. In 1952 she was an oncologist at the 4th Polyclinic, and from 1952 to 1954 a surgical oncologist at the 9th Polyclinic. From 1954 to 1956 she headed the organisational-methodical office and worked as a surgeon at the Interdistrict Oncological Dispensary, and in 1956–57 at the Republican Oncological Dispensary. From 1957 to 1968 she was a surgical physician at the Riga City Oncological Dispensary.

In 1948 she married Abram Meerovich Mizrokh, and they had a son, Lev Abramovich Mizrokh.

Her father, Leib Samuelovich Slutskin (1871, Kirsanovo — 1942, Michurinsk), and mother, Henrietta Lazarevna Slutskina (née Shlosberg) (1881, Riga — 1948, Riga), were her parents. Her sisters were Zhenya Leibovna Gutman (1906, Riga) and Sara Leibovna Slutskina (1909, Riga — 1965, Riga). Her cousin, Olga Venyaminovna Peshe (née Bergman) (1893, Riga), emigrated to Italy in 1925.

Family:

Abram Meerovich Mizrokh (married 1948) — husband
Lev Abramovich Mizrokh — son
Leib Samuelovich Slutskin (1871–1942) — father
Henrietta Lazarevna Slutskina (née Shlosberg) (1881–1948) — mother
Zhenya Leibovna Gutman (born 1906) — sister
Sara Leibovna Slutskina (1909–1965) — sister
Olga Venyaminovna Peshe (née Bergman) (1893) — cousin