Reznik (Resnik) (née Mikhalovich) Malka Shmuilovna (Samuilovna) (15 June 1925, Šiauliai) – seamstress.

Malka Reznik was born into the family of a tinsmith-roofer and a dressmaker, the youngest of seven children. In 1939 she completed seven years at the Jewish primary school in Šiauliai and learned the basics of dressmaking from her mother.

During the occupation of Lithuania by German troops,Malka’s relatives were confined in the local ghetto. Of her entire family, only two survived the Holocaust:she and her brother Mendel Mikhalovich (1919, Žagarė). A prisoner of a displaced persons camp in Munich, he was liberated by the American Allied Army and departed for the territory of the present-day State of Israel. Her parents, brothers and sisters — Mikhalovich (Kriger) Samuil (1881–1944), Mikhalovich Hana (1886–1943(?)), Mikhalovich Yankel (1905, Žagarė – 1941(?)), Mikhalovich Rakhmiel (1908, Žagarė – 1941(?)), Mikhalovich Genya (1912, Žagarė – 1941(?)), Mikhalovich Kalman (1913, Žagarė – 1942(?)), and Mikhalovich Rakhil (1916, Žagarė – 1942) — were inmates of the Šiauliai ghetto and perished or were shot in concentration camps in Europe. Malka Reznik herself was transferred to the Stutthof camp. After the territory was liberated by Soviet forces, she was sent to a filtration camp near Grodno and subsequently returned to Šiauliai.

In 1946 Malka Reznik worked as a domestic servant in the family of Dr Savich in Vilnius. In 1952–53 she worked as a seamstress in a tailoring workshop of the military trade organisation in Riga. In 1958–59 she worked at the sewing workshop of the Riga Municipal Industrial Combine. From 1963 she was employed as a cook at Nursery School No. 140.

In 1946 she married Benjamin Reznik (1922), a native of the Belarusian city of Baranovichi. In the marriage, daughters were born: Sheina Reznik (1949, Riga) and Hana Reznik (1961, Riga).

Family:

Benjamin Reznik (1922, Baranovichi, Belarus) – husband
Sheina Reznik (1949, Riga) – daughter
Hana Reznik (1961, Riga) – daughter
Mikhalovich (Kriger) Samuil (1881–1944) – father
Mikhalovich Hana (1886–1943(?)) – mother
Mikhalovich Yankel (1905, Žagarė – 1941(?)) – brother
Mikhalovich Rakhmiel (1908, Žagarė – 1941(?)) – brother
Mikhalovich Genya (1912, Žagarė – 1941(?)) – sister
Mikhalovich Kalman (1913, Žagarė – 1942(?)) – brother
Mikhalovich Rakhil (1916, Žagarė – 1942) – sister
Mendel Mikhalovich (1919, Žagarė) – brother