Heifetz Solomeya Yakovlevna (1923)

Heifetz (née Edeikina) Solomeya Yakovlevna (8 February 1923, Berlin) — accountant.

Solomeya Heifetz was born into the family of Riga industrialist Yakov Iosifovich Edeikin (1890, Sabile, Latvia — 1942, Kargasok District, Tomsk Region) and homemaker Mera Shlemovna Edeikina (née Fradkina) (1897, Libau [now Liepāja]).

She graduated from a Riga secondary school in 1940.

On 14 June 1941, together with her parents and brothers, she was deported as a member of the family of a former property owner to a special settlement in the Kargasok District of Tomsk Region.

There she worked as a farm laborer on a collective farm (1941–1942), as a worker in the timber industry (1942–1945), as a knitter in the district industrial combine (1945), and as a nurse’s aide in the district hospital (1945–1947).

After moving to Tomsk, she completed a workers’ secondary school (1947–1948), attended accounting courses (1948–1949), and worked as an accountant at the Tomsk Municipal Industrial Combine (1949) and in the Trust of Public Canteens (1950–1951).

She later returned to Kargasok, where she worked in the local forestry enterprise (1951–1952) and as a bookkeeper in the Supply Department of the Narym Agency (1952–1953).

She was a homemaker from 1953 to 1954.

From 1954 to 1956, she worked as an accountant in Construction Directorate No. 768.

She returned to Riga in 1957, where she was a homemaker from 1957 to 1960, then worked as an accountant at the Rīgas Adītājs knitwear factory (1960–1962), at the Spartak garment factory (1962–1963) and as a financial economist at the Latvija company (1963–1967).

From 1967 she devoted herself to household management.

Note

According to a certificate issued on 30 November 1970 by senior OVIR inspector M. Zorina, Solomeya’s father, Yakov Iosifovich Edeikin, was a major industrialist. He was first co-owner (with David Berlin) and later sole owner of the bicycle factory “Latvello”, which had an annual turnover of 1,600,000 lats and employed approximately 200 workers.

He was also a major property owner and a member of the Zionist organizations Keren Hayesod and Keren Kayemet.

According to the same document, he was executed in April 1942 as an “enemy of the people.” His former business partner, David Berlin, also died in a camp.

In marriage with Yakov Samuilovich Heifetz (1918, Riga) two children were born: Rita Yakovlevna Heifetz (1953, Kargasok, Tomsk Region) and Grigory Yakovlevich Heifetz (1956, Tomsk)

In 1968 Solomeya Heifetz applied for permission to emigrate to the United States, where her maternal uncles lived: Julius Shlemovich Fradkin (1893, Konotop), who had emigrated in 1910 and Abram Shlemovich Fradkin (1895, Konotop), who had emigrated in 1913, as well as her aunt Vera Samuilovna Edeikina (1905, Odesa), the widow of her late father’s brother.

The request was denied.

In 1971 she received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her husband's cousin Lea Tsofnat (née Heifetz) (1916, Rēzekne) was living.

Family:

Yakov Iosifovich Edeikin (1890, Sabile — 1942, Kargasok District, Tomsk Region) — father
Mera Shlemovna Edeikina (née Fradkina) (1897, Libau/Liepāja) — mother
Yakov Samuilovich Heifetz (1918, Riga) — husband
Rita Yakovlevna Heifetz (1953, Kargasok, Tomsk Region) — daughter
Grigory Yakovlevich Heifetz (1956, Tomsk) — son
Julius Shlemovich Fradkin (1893, Konotop) — maternal uncle
Abram Shlemovich Fradkin (1895, Konotop) — maternal uncle
Vera Samuilovna Edeikina (1905, Odesa) — aunt
Lea Tsofnat (née Heifetz) (1916, Rēzekne) — husband's cousin