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Nitskanskaya Taube Movshevna (1920)

Personal data
SurnameNitskanskaya
NameTaube
PatronymMovshevna
Birth year1920
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Nitskanskaya (Nitzkanskaya) (née Segor) Taube Movshevna (1920, Riga) — accountant.

Taube Nitskanskaya was the daughter of Khava Ginzburg (1896–1941 (?)) and Movsha Segor (1891, Riga – 1925). After her father’s death, her mother moved with the children to Jelgava. In 1939, Nitskanskaya graduated from the Jelgava State Gymnasium. From 1939 to 1941, she worked as a bookkeeper at the Jelgavas Linu Verptuve enterprise.

In 1941, she was evacuated to Chuvashia and subsequently moved to the village of Leninskoye in the Kazakh SSR. Between 1943 and 1945, she worked as a bookkeeper at the South Kazakhstan Regional Trade Administration in Chimkent. In 1945, she was re-evacuated to Riga and until 1946 worked as an accountant at the ORS of the State Maritime Shipping Company. In 1947, she moved to Ukraine, where until 1960 she worked as an accountant at various enterprises in Chernivtsi.

In 1960, Taube Nitskanskaya returned to Riga and until 1972 worked as an accountant and senior accountant in the Municipal Services Administration, at the Riga 4th Polyclinic, at the Zagotplodovoshch office, at courses of the Ministry of Trade of the Latvian SSR, and at the Republican Trade and Culinary Vocational School.

Nitskanskaya’s first husband, Bentsion Shidlo (…–1942), was killed in action during the Second World War. In her marriage to Mikhail Nitskansky (1915, Kriulyany village – 1959), a daughter, Eva Nitskanskaya (1950, Chernivtsi), was born. During the Holocaust, Nitskanskaya’s mother and brother, Israel Segor (1922, Riga – 1941 (?)), were killed.

In 1972, Taube Nitskanskaya received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her cousin Arye Malits (1915), who had emigrated to Palestine in the 1930s and had lived in Israel since the 1960s.

Family :

Bentsion Shidlo (…–1942) — first husband
Mikhail Nitskansky (1915, Kriulyany village – 1959) — second husband
Eva Nitskanskaya (1950, Chernivtsi) — daughter
Khava Ginzburg (1896–1941 (?)) — mother
Movsha Segor (1891, Riga – 1925) — father
Israel Segor (1922, Riga – 1941 (?)) — brother
Arye Malits (1915) — cousin