Rukh (Ruch) (née Donskaitė) Gita Efraimovna (15 September 1920, Kaunas) — seamstress.

Gita Rukh completed four years of primary school. From 1934 to 1941 she worked as a seamstress in Altshuller’s workshop in Kaunas.

In 1941 Gita Rukh was imprisoned in the Kaunas ghetto. In 1943 she was transferred to a concentration camp in Poland. After liberation in 1944, she returned to Kaunas, where until 1950 she worked as a seamstress in the artel “Baltinai.” In 1950 she worked as a machine operator at the Kaunas State Mechanical Plant.

In 1950 she moved to Pavlovsk in the Altai Territory, where until 1955 she worked as a seamstress at Pavlovsk Children’s Home No. 1. From 1955 she was a homemaker. In 1962 she moved to Riga.

She was married to Leyba Rukh (1908, Rokiškis, Lithuania). Their sons were Erakhmiel Rukh (1952, Pavlovsk, Altai Territory) and Pinkhos Rukh (1955, Pavlovsk, Altai Territory).

Her parents, Efraim Donskoy (— 1941, Kaunas) and Rakhil Donskene (— 1941, Kaunas), as well as her brother Ber Donskoy (1910, Kaunas — 1941, Kaunas) and her sister Khova Donskaitė (1920, Kaunas — 1941, Kaunas), were killed in the Holocaust.

Her sister Rashlė Shokhanene (née Donskaitė; 1918, Kaunas) lived and worked in Kaunas in the 1960s. Her brother Sesil Donskoy (1908, Kaunas) left Lithuania in 1938 in search of work and in the 1960s lived and worked in the United Kingdom.

In 1964 Gita Rukh received permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family:

Leiba Rukh (1908, Rokiškis, Lithuania) — husband
Erakhmiel Rukh (1952, Pavlovsk, Altai Territory) — son
Pinkhos Rukh (1955, Pavlovsk, Altai Territory) — son
Efraim Donskoy (— 1941, Kaunas) — father
Rakhil Donskene (— 1941, Kaunas) — mother
Sesil Donskoy (1908, Kaunas) — brother
Ber Donskoy (1910, Kaunas — 1941, Kaunas) — brother
Rashlė Shokhanene (née Donskaitė; 1918, Kaunas) — sister
Khova Donskaitė (1920, Kaunas — 1941, Kaunas) — sister

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