Spungin (née Zigelbaum) Mira Moiseevna (22 June 1917, Kraslava) — seamstress.

Mira Spungin completed seven years of basic schooling. From 1929 to 1938, she worked as a seamstress in Basin’s workshop in Kraslava; from 1938 to 1940 in Rosenberg’s workshop in Riga; and from 1940 to 1941 in the artel “Brīvība.”

From 1941 to 1943, she worked as a drill operator at a metallurgical plant in Krasnoyarsk. From 1943 to 1945, she worked as a seamstress in an artel at Zaozyornaya station (Krasnoyarsk Territory). In 1946, she returned to Riga and until 1950 worked as a seamstress at the 3rd Riga Industrial Combine. From 1950 to 1951, she worked as a seamstress in the artel “Bērnu Apģērbs.”

After her marriage in the 1950s, she moved to Estonia. In 1968, she was convicted under Article 86, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Estonian SSR and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment; she was later released under an amnesty. From 1970 to 1972, she worked as a cleaner at the production association “Siluets” in Riga. From 1972, she was a homemaker.

She married Smuel Spungin (1922, Tartu). Their children are Fanni Spungin (1951, Tartu) and Isak Spungin (1956, Tartu).

Her parents, Moisey Zigelbaum (1881, Chișinău — 1941, Kraslava) and Feiga Zigelbaum (1883, Kraslava — 1941, Kraslava), perished in the Holocaust.

In 1972, Mira Spungin received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her husband’s cousin Boris Kopman (1939, Daugavpils).

Family:

Smuel Spungin (1922, Tartu) — husband
Fanni Spungin (1951, Tartu) — daughter
Isak Spungin (1956, Tartu) — son
Moisey Zigelbaum (1881, Chișinău — 1941, Kraslava) — father
Feyga Zigelbaum (1883, Kraslava — 1941, Kraslava) — mother
Yakov Zigelbaum (1910, Kraslava) — brother
Riva Fonareva (née Zigelbaum) (1923, Kraslava) — sister
Boris Kopman (1939, Daugavpils) — husband’s cousin