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Raiz Liya Isay-Leybovna (1914)

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SurnameRaiz
NameLiya
PatronymIsay-Leybovna
Birth year1914
Birth month5
Birth day13
Birth placeKremenchug
SexF

Raiz (Reis) Liya (Lia) Isay-Leybovna (13 May 1914, Kremenchug, Poltava Region — ?, ?) — accountant.

After graduating from Seven-Year School No. 2 in Kremenchug, Liya Reiz worked in 1930–32 as a worker at a hosiery factory (Kremenchug). In 1933–35 she was a bookkeeper at a pasta factory (Kremenchug). In 1935 she completed evening accounting courses. In 1935–41 she worked as an accountant at a metal combine (Kremenchug). In 1941–44, while in evacuation, she worked on a collective farm in the village of Sukhotino, Krasnoarmeysky District, Petropavlovsk Region. In 1944–45 she was an accountant at Kremtorg (Kremenchug). At the end of 1945 she moved to Riga. In 1946–49 she was an accountant at the ORS of the Pervomaisky Combine of the trust “Muka-Khleb” (?); in 1949–70 she was a senior accountant at the Riga Carriage-Building Plant. In 1970–72 she worked as an intake clerk at the production association “Vilnis”.

Married to Yufa, Bentsion Meerovich.

Sons: Yufa, Yuri Bentsionovich (b. 1939, Kremenchug), emigrated to Israel; Yufa, Gariy Bentsionovich (b. 1947, Riga), emigrated to Israel.

Father: Raiz, Isay-Leyb Khatskelevich (1879, Cherkasy — 1943, Irkutsk, in evacuation).

Mother: Raiz, Risya Shmerkovna (1881, Gradyzhsk — 1961, Riga).

Sister: Raiz, Rakhil Isay-Leybovna (1917, Kremenchug — ?, ?).

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