Nikiforova (Karpitskaya) Marksen Mikhailovna
1. Interview with Nikiforova M.M., taken by Fliege I.A. 09/11/2004.
2. Interview with Nikiforova M.M., taken by Fliege I.A. 04/29/2005.
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Nikiforova Marksena Mikhailovna
Born October 12, 1923 in Petrograd. In early July 1937, after the arrest of her mother and stepfather, she was left with two younger brothers. In August 1937, the children and the housekeeper were evicted from the apartment into a room in a communal apartment. In September 1937, after the brothers were taken to an orphanage, she sold her things and lived with her aunt, Alevtina Nikolaevna Sizova. She graduated from school in 1941. She remained in Leningrad during the siege, and in September 1941 she entered the university, in the philological faculty. In February 1942, the university was evacuated, and from April 1942 to October 1944 she worked as a librarian in the district library. In 1943, she received a summons for expulsion from Leningrad and hid for several months. In 1942, she married Ivan Nikolaevich Nikiforov and gave birth to a son in 1944. Worked as a grinder at Plant #77. From 1948 - librarian at the school library. In 1954 she gave birth to a son, was seriously ill, and did not work for several years. From 1962 she worked in the regional statistical office, then as an economist. Became seriously ill, quit in 1973 and from 1973 to 1975 worked as a lab assistant at the Diesel Research Institute, on disability since 1975. From 1989 at Memorial, until 2001 she was a member of the Board of the Memorial Society. At Memorial she dealt mainly with the social problems of the former "eastern workers". Died on 08.05.2008.
