Plotke (née Berzon) Lea Bentsionovna (29 March 1925, Riga) - factory worker.

Lea Plotke was born into the family of Bentsion Zalmanovich Berzon (born 1885, Viļaka – murdered in 1941 in the Riga Ghetto), a teacher, and Basya Isakovna Berzon (née Druyan) (born 1898, Dagda – murdered in 1941), a housewife.

She completed eight grades of schooling (1932–1941). During the Second World War she was evacuated to Nikolsk in Yaroslavl Oblast, and later to Frunze Oblast of the Kyrgyz SSR, where she worked at the “Kamyshanovka” collective farm (1941–1943). She graduated from a factory-training school (FZU) in 1945 and worked as a laboratory assistant at the Novotroitsk Sugar Factory.

After returning to Riga, she worked as a courier at the Ministry of Forestry (1945–1946), then as a waitress in various restaurants (1946–1949). In 1949, she was employed as a worker at the Khimprodukt Artel. From 1949 to 1954, she was a homemaker, then worked as a sales assistant at Latpromtorg (1954–1955), after which she again remained a homemaker.

In her marriage to Zalaman Bentsionovich Plotke (born 1924, Riga), a daughter was born, Benita Zalamanovna Berelovich (née Plotke) (born 1949, Riga).

In 1979, Lea Plotke received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1972 her husband’s sister, Lea Bentsionovna Band (née Plotke) (born 1929, Riga), had been living.

Family:

Bentsion Zalmanovich Berzon (1885–1941) — father
Basya Yakovlevna Berzon (née Druyan) (1896–1941) — mother
Zalaman Bentsionovich Berzon (born 1927, Riga) — brother
Ida Bentsionovna Trubkina (née Berzon) (born 1923, Riga) — sister
Zalaman Bentsionovich Plotke (born 1924) — husband
Benita Zalamanovna Berelovich (née Plotke) (born 1949) — daughter