Bentchi Shemtov's Sister Grunya Kasrilievna
A very low-quality post
“Lev Iosifovich Lapidus was born on 22 June, 1927 in Moscow in the family of the famous Soviet economist Iosif Abramovich Lapidus and the Pulmonologist Grunya Kasrilievna Shemtova. Iosif Abramovich was from Minsk and Grunya Kasrilievna came to Moscow after the Jewish pogroms from Druya, Polotsk region. The young people met in Moscow as medical students at the First Moscow University. In 1924, I.A.Lapidus graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and in 1929 - from the Faculty of Philosophy.
Grunya Kasrilievna during the war years worked in the Main Military Sanitary Directorate of the Red Army.”
Being from a Druya family I never heard of a pogrom there. My grandma remembered Shemtovs in Druya. I think I now know why Jews forgotten all the real pogroms because everyone said it, it was a nice thing to say, explained everything in one sentence, to the point that the real pogroms no longer mattered.
After returning from the evacuation, Lev Iosifovich externally graduated from the tenth grade of school No.110 in Moscow and entered D.Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. After a year and a half of study, he transferred to the newly established Moscow Mechanical Institute and graduated from it in 1950, becoming one of its first graduates. When he studied at Mendeleev University, he met Sophia Lvovna Smirnova, who in 1948 became his life partner and lived with him in all joys and sorrows until the end of his days.
Daughter of Lev Iosifovich and Sophia Lvovna Smirnova, granddaughter of Grunya Shemtov.
Anyway, I heard from his einikle that Bentchi Shemtov had non-religious relatives in Argentina and for that reason, he threw out letters from them without reading... So, this is a throwaway post. Put in the garbage bin.