Sidebar

Contents

People
Jews born in or connected to Latvia

Search people


Culture
Cultural and social life of Latvian Jews

Geography
Towns and cities where Jews lived in Latvia

Sukonnikova-Sheimes Yudita Aronovna (1912)

Personal data
SurnameSukonnikova-Sheimes
NameYudita
PatronymAronovna
Birth year1912
Birth month11
Birth day7
Birth placeTukums
SexF

Sukonnikova-Sheimes (Sukonnikowa -Scheimes) Yudita (Judita) Aronovna (7 November 1912, Tukums) — physician.

Her father was Aron Sheymes, a dentist. In 1931–1935, Yudita Sukonnikova-Sheimes studied at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Riga. In 1935, she moved to Moscow, and in 1936 entered the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute, where she studied until the beginning of the war.

In 1941, she was evacuated to Kazan, where she completed her medical education. She was mobilized to work in an evacuation hospital, where she served as head of a department. In 1943, she returned to Moscow and worked as a physician in the polyclinic of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

In 1945–1947, she worked as a physician at the 1st Riga City Hospital. In the summer of 1948, she was a physician at a sanatorium on the Riga seashore. In 1949–1950, she worked as a consulting physician for Gosstrakh. From 1951, she was a dermatovenereologist at a dermatovenerologic dispensary.

Her husband was Semyon Mikhailovich Sukonnikov, a civil engineer; her children were Felix (born 1939) and Pavel (born 1946).