Zilberberg Sopfia Alexandrovna

Zilberberg Sopfia Alexandrovna was born in November 5, 1894 on Lodz city in Pokland. Jewish by nationality. She was condemned in December 29, 1937 by Special Meeting of USSR NKVD as a family member of Motherland Traitor for 8 years in Labour Camp. Arrived in Akmolinsk camp in July 19, 1938 from Ufa prison. Freed in November 13,1945 from Karlag. Before arrest she worked as chief physician of the famous maternity hospital named after Grauerman. It was a high-ranking maternity hospital for government members and high-ranking employees. Her husband, Harin Solomon Mikhailovich, Deputy Director of the state Bank of the USSR, was arrested on November 4, 1936, he was shot. Sophia Alexandrovna was removed from work as a member of the family of a traitor to the Motherland, then exiled from Moscow to Ufa, where she was arrested and sent to "ALZHIR"after prison. In Moscow her two daughters, Elena and Maya left. In the camp, she worked as a doctor, treated, saved others, and even did not give permission to use the sick in General work, placing them in kitchens, in medical centers, in workshops. She was released from the camp in 1947, came to Karaganda and began to work there successfully as a doctor. But in 1949, she was charged with a fictitious charge under article 58 and sent to the village of Aksu-Ayulyshet district of the Karaganda region for permanent settlement. There she worked as a doctor until 1954. Sofia Alexandrovna treated the profession of a doctor as as a duty to serve people. Being an obstetrician-gynecologist by training, she mastered other medical specialties in exile, was a dentist, venereologist, and even treated eye diseases. The climate in Kazakhstan wais harsh, because then there was no transport, only horses. But at any time of the day, in any weather, my mother went or went to help the patient, so the residents loved her very much. The Kazakhs called it "dariger Sophia". She returned from exile in 1954, and soon after the twentieth party Congress was rehabilitated, and lived in Moscow. She died of lung cancer in Leningrad in 1977, at the age of 83.

Currently, the daughter of Sofia Alexandrovna Maya Sheinina and granddaughters Elena, Kati live in Israel.

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