Fridman Rakhil Movshevna (1921)

Fridman (Friedmann) (née Paikina) Rakhil (Rachil) Movshevna (11 September 1921, Polotsk, Vitebsk Region, BSSR) — educator.

Rakhil Fridman was born into the family of Movsha Izrailevich Paikin (1896, Polotsk — 1960, Riga) and Khana Nakhamovna Paikina (née Kremer) (1896, Polotsk — 1942, Tbilisi). In 1939 she graduated from secondary school in Polotsk. From 1939 to 1942 she studied at the Pokrovsky Pedagogical Institute in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad), and from 1942 to 1944 she completed her studies at the State University in Tbilisi.

She worked as a teacher of the Russian language at Secondary School No. 28 in Tbilisi (1944–1946), then at Secondary School No. 17 in Riga (1946–1963), and at Secondary School No. 18 in Riga (1963–1969).

She was married to Abram Maksimovich Fridman (born 1923); the couple had no children.

In 1969 Rakhil Fridman received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1945 her husband’s brother, Ruvin Maksimovich Fridman (born 1924, Riga), had been living.

Family:

Movsha Izrailevich Paikin (1896–1960) — father
Khana Nakhamovna Paikina (née Kremer) (1896–1942) — mother
Aharon Moiseevich Paikin (1924) — brother
Abram Maksimovich Fridman (1923) — husband
Ruvin Maksimovich Fridman (1924) — brother-in-law