Tevye and Gita Feiman on their wedding day

Tevye and Gita Feiman on their wedding day

This photograph shows my cousin, Tevye Feiman, and his wife, Gita Feiman, nee Gutman, on their wedding day. The photo was taken in Tallinn in 1934. My mother's older sister, Berta Feiman, died early. Her husband, Haim-Shimon Feiman, owned a tannery in Tartu. Their only son, Tevye Feiman, graduated from university in Vienna in the middle of the 1920s with a physician's qualification; both before and after World War II he worked as a doctor in the town of Rakvere in Estonia. During the war Tevye and his family were evacuated to Russia. Tevye worked as a doctor in a military hospital. Before she was married, his wife, Gita, worked in a large jewelry store in Tallinn. Once married, she studied to be a medical assistant and then worked alongside her husband. Their daughter, Aviva, married a marine officer and went to live with him in Leningrad. Tevye Feiman died in the middle of the 1980s in Tallinn. Since his death Gita has been living in St. Petersburg with her daughter's family.
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