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Pukina Nekha-Leya Simkhovna (1917)

Personal data
SurnamePukina
NameNekha-Leya
PatronymSimkhovna
Birth year1917
Birth month11
Birth day7
Birth placeKhmelnytskyi
SexF

Pukina (née Fert) Nekha-Leya (Necha-Lea) Simkhovna (born 7 November 1917, Khmelnytskyi — ?, ?) — factory worker.

After completing three years of schooling, from 1923 to 1941 Nekha-Leya Pukina worked at a confectionery factory in Khmelnytskyi. In 1941–1945 she was evacuated and worked as a labourer on a collective farm in Kashkadarya Region of the Uzbek SSR. From 1945 to 1955 she again worked at a confectionery factory in Khmelnytsky. In 1955–1962 she was employed as a worker at the Third Brewery in Riga, and in 1962–1965 she worked as a cleaner in a canteen of the Public Catering Trust of Moscow District, Riga.

Since 1955 she was married to Abram Davidovich Pukin. Their sons are Yakov Abramovich Pukin (born 12 April 1958, place unknown) and David Abramovich Pukin (born 1959, place unknown).

Her father, Yankel-Simo Fert (born 1891, Ukraine — ?, ?), went missing in 1941 during evacuation. Her mother was Frima Elyevna Fert (née Dorkhman) (1895, Khmelnytskyi — 1963, Proskurov).

Her brother is Vladimir Simkhovich Fert (born 1927, Khmelnytskyi), and her sister is Klara Simkhovna Fert (born 1925, Khmelnytskyi).