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Port Khaya (1916)

Personal data
SurnamePort
NameKhaya
Birth year1916
Birth month1
Birth day13
Birth placeKuldīga
SexF

Port (née Levi) Khaya (Chaya) Lvovna (13 January 1916, Kuldīga) — worker.

In 1916, Khaya’s parents, Lev Levi (1879–1951) and Sara Levi (née Geyman) (1888–1951), were evacuated with their children to Vitebsk. She graduated from the Vitebsk Factory Training School (FZU) in 1932. From 1932 to 1941, she worked at the KIM Hosiery and Knitwear Factory in Vitebsk. During the war, she was evacuated to Kokand (Uzbek SSR), where she worked at the Kokand Hosiery-Spinning Combine until 1946. In 1946, the family moved to Riga, where she did not work until 1963. From 1964 to 1971, she worked at the Dzintars perfumery factory. From 1971 — pensioner.

Her brother, Alter Levi (1925), moved from Riga to Israel in 1973. Her sister, Ida Kopilevich (née Levi) (1910), moved to Israel in 1975.

Family:

Ruvim Port (1915) — husband
Lev Levi (1879–1951) — father
Sara Levi (née Geyman) (1888–1951) — mother
Larisa Tsvetkova (née Port) (1939) — daughter
Artur Port (1936) — son
Ida Kopilevich (née Levi) (1910) — sister
Alter Levi (1925) — brother