Shmushkovich (née Shteyman) Golda Borukhovna (15.3.1914, Skrudaliena, Vitebsk Governorate ― ?) ― seamstress, participant in revolutionary activity.
Born into the family of tailor Borukh Shteyman (1911―1921); after his death Sh. and her family moved to Daugavpils to join her elder brothers and sisters. From 1928 she became an apprentice at Matlin's workshop; in 1929 she moved to Riga, where she worked as a seamstress at the private workshops of Gdud, Matros, Mankova, and at the “Gentleman” firm.
She took part in the revolutionary movement, carrying out assignments related to printing and distributing illegal literature (working under the underground alias “Olya”).
In 1934 she was arrested for communist activity and sentenced to 3 years, though the term was reduced to 2 years because Sh. was a minor. After her release from prison she took a job as a seamstress at Ashman's workshop and continued to take part in the revolutionary movement.
In 1938 she married Mikhail Shmushkovich (1902 ― 1942, Staraya Russa). She carried packages to political prisoners, among whom was her husband, who had been sentenced to 4 years of hard labor.
In June 1941, together with her daughter Kira (b. 1940), she was evacuated to Gorky Region, where she was employed in fieldwork at the “Achka” collective farm, and later at a factory. There Sh. met her sister Bela Mendelevich (née Shteyman) (b. 1918), and together with her moved to Uzbekistan. At the end of 1942 they were found by their sister Nekhama Shteyman (b. 1909), and all of them together moved first to Kyrgyzstan and then to Cheboksary.
After the war she returned to Latvia and in 1945―54 worked as a seamstress at the sewing-and-shoe combine of military unit No. 95460; she received category 3 disability status and until 1962 worked at the “Rigas Kooperatore” custom tailoring factory, after which she retired. In 1972, together with her daughter, she planned to move to Israel to join her sisters B. Mendelevich and Pesya Groman (b. 1911).

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Shmushkovich Mikhail - a party member; after the establishment of Soviet power, Mikhail worked at the Supreme Court of the Latvian SSR, and volunteered for the army from among the evacuated staff in the town of Gorokhovets.
He was killed in the war near Staraya Russa in 1942.

Sh.'s mother, Shteyman (née Zubovich) Gnesa (1879 – 1941), and her brother Shteyman Abram (1911 – 1941), were killed in the first days of the war. Her sister Yufit (née Shteyman) Nekhama (1909 – 1946) died in Moscow in 1946. Her sister Kasinskaya (née Shteyman) Doba (1909 – 1969) spent her last years in Denmark and died in Copenhagen. Her brother Shteyman Simon (1906) lived and worked in North Africa in the 1970s. Figotina (née Shteyman) Rakhil (1904) lived in Moscow.

Shteyman (née Zubovich) Gnesa (1879 – 1941) – mother
Shteyman Borukh (1911 – 1921) – father
Shmushkovich Mikhail (1902 – 1942) – husband
Shteyman Abram (1911 – 1941) – brother
Yufit (née Shteyman) Nekhama (1909 – 1946) – sister
Kasinskaya (née Shteyman) Doba (1909 – 1969) – sister
Figotina (née Shteyman) Rakhil (1904) – sister
Mendelevich (née Shteyman) Bela (1918) – sister
Groman (née Shteyman) Pesya (1911) – sister
Shteyman Simon (1906) – brother
Shmushkovich Kira (1940) – daughter