Gasulis Beylya Zelikovna (1921)

Gasulis (née Gildenson) Beylya Zelikovna (b. 12 November 1921, Riga) – labourer. Beylya Gasulis was born to Zelik Borisovich Gildenson (1893, Vitebsk – 1959, Riga) and Dora Leybovna Gildenson (1891, Vitebsk – 1974, Riga). She completed seven years at Riga Jewish School No. 3.

From 1936 to 1941, she worked as an apprentice and shop assistant at Levin’s store. During the war, she was evacuated to the Kirov region, where she worked on a collective farm (1941–1942), and later as a drill press operator at the Stakhanovets artel (1942–1945). Upon returning to Riga, she worked greasing baking moulds in a bakery (1945–1946), then was a homemaker (1946–1961). From 1961 to 1974, she worked as a shop assistant at the purchasing base of Riga Municipal Trade No. 2.

Her first husband, Boris Moiseyevich Lichtman (b. 1919, Riga), was killed in action near Staraya Russa in 1942; they had no children.

In her second marriage to Mordukh Leibovich Gasul (b. 1912, Riga), she had a son, Lev Mordukhovich Gasulis (b. 1946, Riga).

In 1974, Beylya Gasulis received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her son Lev Gasulis had resided since 1973.

Family:

Zelik Borisovich Gildenson (1893–1959) – father
Dora Leybovna Gildenson (1891–1974) – mother
Raya (Rakhil) Zelikovna Moiseyeva (née Gildenson, b. 1916) – sister (emigrated to Israel in 1973)
Feiga Zelikovna Shapova (née Gildenson, b. 1919) – sister
Riva Zelikovna Livshits (née Gildenson, b. 1932) – sister

Samuil Zelikovich Gildenson (b. 1927) – brother (moved to Poland in 1957, then to Mexico in 1968)

Boris Zelikovich Gildenson (b. 1924, Riga) – brother

Yeita Borisovna Gimelfarb (née Fainveits, 1923, Daugavpils – 1972, Tel Aviv) – sister of her daughter-in-law’s mother (Pesia Borisovna Ber, née Fainveits, b. 1913)