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Nakhmanovich Ginda Pinkhusovna (1906)

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SurnameNakhmanovich
NameGinda
PatronymPinkhusovna
Birth year1906
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Nakhmanovich (Nachmanowitsch) Ginda Pinkhusovna (1906, Riga — ?) — participant in the underground revolutionary movement.

From the age of 16 Ginda Nakhmanovich worked at a biscuit factory and a textile factory. In 1927 she joined the International Red Aid (MOPR), an underground organization providing assistance to fighters of the revolutionary movement, and was involved in collecting funds for political prisoners.

From 1928 to 1934 she headed an underground printing press and took part in organizing strikes, demonstrations, and conferences, as well as in smuggling underground activists persecuted by the authorities across the border into the Soviet Union. In 1934 she was arrested, but due to lack of evidence was released. She remained in hiding for a long time.

From 1940 to 1958 Ginda Nakhmanovich worked as a senior ward supervisor in prisons in Riga and Ufa.