Tsirkind (née Shapiro) Faina Lvovna (10.10.1925, Osipovichi, Mogilev Region, Belorussia) – nurse. Daughter of Shapiro Lev Leibovich (1892, Osipovichi – missing in action in 1942) and Shapiro (née Kontarovich) Mikhlia Bentsionovna (1902, Osipovichi – 1974, Riga).
She completed 8 grades of the Osipovichi school (1933—1941), was evacuated to Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, where she completed 10 grades of the local secondary school (1941—1943). She was dependent on her mother (1943—1944), returned to Osipovichi and was again dependent on her mother (1944—1945). She ran the household (1945—1955). She completed nursing courses (1955—1957, Vorkuta, Komi ASSR), worked in her specialty at the physiotherapy clinic of the central polyclinic of the “Vorkutaugol” combine (1957—1958); moving to Riga, she was dependent on her husband (1958—1959), and worked as a nurse at Riga Municipal Polyclinic No. 3, as a paramedic at the health clinic of the macaroni-bakery combine, and at other institutions (1959—1968).

In her marriage to Tsirkind Yury Mikhailovich (1911, Kobchitsy village, Polesskaya Region, Belorussia – 1972, Riga), daughter Rud (née Tsirkind, in her first marriage – Gokhman) Lyudmila Yuryevna (1946, Osipovichi) and son Tsirkind Mikhail Yuryevich (1952, Osipovichi) were born. Her daughter left for Israel in 1974, and from there – for the USA.

In 1979 she received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1975 her nephew (the son of her cousin Golovchinyer (née Volynskaya) Revekka Isaakovna (1918)), Golovchinyer Leopold Abramovich (1953, Riga), had been living.

N. Voronova

Shapiro Lev Leibovich (1892—1942) – father
Shapiro (née Kontarovich) Mikhlia Bentsionovna (1902—1974) – mother
Shapiro Yakov Lvovich (1929, Osipovichi) – brother
Kagan (née Shapiro) Raisa Lipovna (1940, Osipovichi) – sister
Tsirkind Yury Mikhailovich (1911—1972) – husband
Rud (née Tsirkind, in her first marriage – Gokhman) Lyudmila Yuryevna (1946) – daughter
Tsirkind Mikhail Yuryevich (1952) – son
Golovchinyer Leopold Abramovich (1953) – nephew (cousin's son)