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SurnameVald
NameGrigory
PatronymBorisovich
Birth year1938
Birth month3
Birth day18
birth_placeKharkiv, Ukraine

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Rudina-Foss Braina (1902)

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SurnameRudina-Foss
NameBraina
Birth year1902

Rudina-Foss Braina Lvovna (1902 — date of death unknown) — physician.

In 1927 Braina Rudina-Foss graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Berlin. From 1927 she worked as a doctor in hospitals in Berlin and Zagreb.

From 1931 she was a member of the Communist Party of Germany. In 1933 she emigrated to Yugoslavia, where she married Alfred Bergmann-Nenadov, a well-known member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (killed in 1941).

In 1937 she went to Spain, joined the International Brigades, and worked as head of a hospital. From 1939 to 1941 she worked as a physician in Moscow, and from 1941 until 1945 served as head of a hospital in Ufa.

From 1945 she worked as deputy chief physician of the 7th Riga Polyclinic.

Her sister Miriam was also a participant in the anti-fascist struggle in Spain.