Slavin (Slawin) Efim Afanasievich (28 September 1920, Lepel, Vitebsk Region, Belarus) - worker.
Efim Slavin was born into the family of Afanasy Movshevich Slavin (1883–1957, Lepel) and Basya Iosifovna Slavin (née Tseyrefman) (1885–1968, Lepel). He completed the Lepel Jewish primary school (1928–1935) and continued his studies at the Lepel Russian secondary school (1936–1940). In 1941, he was sent to the front during the Second World War as a cadet in a reconnaissance battalion and also served as a musician from 1941 to 1945. For his service, he was awarded the medal “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.”
After the war, he studied to play wind instruments (1945–1947) and worked as an expediter at the local Lestranskhoz OРS (1947–1949) and as the head of a wind instrument club (1949–1952). After relocating to Riga, he worked as an apprentice at the “Sarkana Zvaigzne” factory (1952), as a master of musical instruments at the “Remont” artel (1952–1956), as a locksmith at the “Straume” factory (1956–1967), as a mechanic at “Rigas Expressis” (1967–1972), returned to work as a locksmith at the “Straume” factory (1972–1975), and finally as a locksmith-instrument maker at Branch No. 2 of the “Rekord” factory (1975–1983).
He was married to Galina Usherovna Slavin (née Belik) (1933, Zhytomyr, Ukraine), with whom he had a daughter, Margarita Yefimovna Magidenko (née Slavin) (1955, Jurmala). In 1983, he received permission to emigrate to Israel, wherehis wife’s sister, Svetlana Usherovna Naigauzen (née Belik) (1948, Jurmala), was already residing.
Family:
· Slavin Afanasy Movshevich (1883–1957, Lepel) — father
· Basya Iosifovna Slavin (née Tseyrefman) (1885–1968, Lepel) — mother
· Abram Afanasievich Slavin (1912, Lepel – 1943) — brother
· Maria Afanasievna Rubenchik (née Slavin) (1918, Lepel) — sister
· Galina Usherovna Slavin (née Belik) (1933, Zhytomyr, Ukraine) — wife
· Margarita Yefimovna Magidenko (née Slavin) (1955, Jurmala) — daughter
· Svetlana Usherovna Naigauzen (née Belik) (1948, Jurmala) — sister-in-law