Khanin Itsik Vulfovich (1882)

Khanin (Hanin) Itsik (Itzik) Vulfovich Khanin (27 July 1882, Dagda) — merchant.

Itsik Khanin was born into the large family of small trader Vulf Khanin and homemaker Riva Khanina, and was the eldest of six children:

Jakob Khanin (1885, Dagda),

Abram Khanin (1888, Dagda),

Rafail Khanin (1890, Dagda),

Lyuba Khanina (1884, Dagda), and

Olga Khanina (1892, Dagda).

From the ages of seven to thirteen he received a traditional Jewish education, studying the Talmud and prayers in Hebrew.

From the age of thirteen he helped his father in the family dry-goods trade.

In 1900 he left his father’s shop, where there was not enough work for both of them, and moved to Riga in search of employment. He worked as a shop assistant in Riga stores.

From 1906 to 1909 he served in the 29th Siberian Rifle Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army.

From 1909 to 1914 he again worked as a shop assistant in Riga stores.

In 1914 he was drafted to the front during the First World War.

In 1916 he returned to Riga and opened his own shop at 19 Maskavas Street.

Until 1940 he was engaged in small retail trade.

From 1940 to 1941 he worked in a shoemaking workshop of the Riga Cooperative Trade Organization.

In 1941 Itsik Khanin together with his daughters was evacuated to Cheboksary, where he worked as a storekeeper.

His wife, Rakhil Khanina (1887, Polotsk — 1941, Riga), and son, Ilya Khanin (1915, Riga — 1941, Riga), were imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto and perished in the Holocaust.

From 1941 to 1943 he worked as a storekeeper in Cheboksary.

In 1943 he became seriously ill and remained under treatment in Namangan until 1945.

In 1945 he returned to Riga.

From 1945 to 1951 he worked as a watchman at the Riga Bread Factory.

His daughter Basya Landerl (née Khanina) (1915, Riga) left the USSR in 1946 and in the 1960s lived in Austria.

His daughter Genya Rozenberg (née Khanina) (1919, Riga) left for Poland in 1946 and in the 1960s worked as a milliner in Switzerland.

His daughter Sonya Traub (née Khanina) (1922, Riga) emigrated to Poland in 1956 and in the 1960s lived in Tel Aviv, where she worked as a lawyer.

In 1963 Itsik Khanin received permission to emigrate to Israel upon invitation from his youngest daughter.

Family:

Rakhil Khanina (1887, Polotsk — 1941, Riga) — wife
Ilya Khanin (1915, Riga — 1941, Riga) — son
Basya Landerl (née Khanina) (1915, Riga) — daughter
Genya Rozenberg (née Khanina) (1919, Riga) — daughter
Sonya Traub (née Khanina) (1922, Riga) — daughter
Riva Khanina (Dagda) — mother
Vulf Khanin (Dagda) — father
Jakob Khanin (1885, Dagda) — brother
Abram Khanin (1888, Dagda) — brother
Rafail Khanin (1890, Dagda) — brother
Lyuba Khanina (1884, Dagda) — sister
Olga Khanina (1892, Dagda) — sister