Tonkonogaya Yuta (Juta) Erakhmielovna (née Levi) (7 May 1934, Tukums) — nurse.

Yuta Tonkonogaya was the daughter of Rassa Levi (1901, Tukums — 1943, Chimkent Region, Kazakh SSR) and Erakhmiel Levi (1896, Kandava — ?).

In 1941, she was evacuated to the Chimkent District of the Kazakh SSR. In 1942, due to her mother’s serious illness, she was placed in an orphanage, where she remained until the end of the war. Toward the end of the war, she moved to Tukums to live with her cousin, Dina Glatsman (1918, Tukums).

In 1952, she moved to Riga and enrolled in a feldsher-midwife school, where she completed one year of study. In 1955, she graduated from nursing courses at the Red Cross. In 1955–1964, she worked as a nurse at Riga nurseries No. 2 and No. 5, at the Riga First Children’s Polyclinic, and at the J. Fabricius Sanatorium in Jūrmala. In 1964–1969, she worked as a feldsher at a sobering-up station of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Latvian SSR in Sloka (Jūrmala).

In marriage with Efim Tonkonogy (1926, Kyiv), two children were born: Isaak Tonkonogy (1957, Riga) and Rada Tonkonogaya (1968, Riga).

Her father perished during the Second World War. Her brother, Rubenis Levi (1928, Riga), lived and worked in Riga in the 1970s.

In 1971, she received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her cousin.

Family:

Efim Tonkonogy (1926, Kyiv) — husband
Isaak Tonkonogy (1957, Riga) — son
Rada Tonkonogaya (1968, Riga) — daughter
Rassa Levi (1901–1943) — mother
Erakhmiel Levi (1896–?) — father
Rubenis Levi (1928, Riga) — brother
Dina Glatsman (1918, Tukums) — cousin