Levitanus Khaya Abramovna (1911)

Levitanus (Lewitanus) (née Pasvolskaya) Khaya (Chaya) Abramovna (born 20 November 1911, Karsava) — milliner.

In 1923 Khaya Levitanus completed six classes of the Karsava basic school. That same year she became an apprentice in Gamaysky’s millinery workshop in Karsava, where she worked until 1940. In 1941 she was evacuated to Namangan, Uzbek SSR. From 1941 to 1945 she worked at a poultry farm in the kolkhoz Akhun Babaev.

In 1945 she returned to Latvia and thereafter remained a homemaker. In her marriage to Ilya Aronovich Levitanus (born 1908, Dagda) the children Aron Levitanus (born 1948, Rezekne) and Lyubov Feldman (née Levitanus) (born 1950, Karsava) were born.

Her father, Abram Pasvolsky (1871, Karsava – 1941, Lukoyanov, Gorky Region), died during the evacuation in 1941. Her mother, Sara Pasvolskaya (née Kazantseva) (1876, Staraya Russa – 1945), died in evacuation and was buried in Namangan.

Her brother Avsey Pasvolsky (born 1910, Karsava – 1941(?)) was killed at the front while serving in the Red Army.

Her sisters: Frida Rubina (née Pasvolskaya) (born 1907, Karsava) lived in Riga in the 1970s; Tamara Parmit (née Pasvolskaya) (born 1895, Karsava) lived in Borovichi, Novgorod Region, in the 1970s; Rasya Kogan (née Pasvolskaya) (born 1913, Karsava) left Latvia in 1933 for what is now Israel.

In 1979 Khaya Levitanus and her husband received permission to emigrate to Israel, invited by Mikhail Shenk­er, the brother of their daughter-in-law’s husband (resident of Chernivtsi, who had emigrated to Israel in 1972).

Family:

Ilya Aronovich Levitanus (born 1908, Dagda) — husband
Aron Levitanus (born 1948, Rezekne) — son
Lyubov Feldman (née Levitanus) (born 1950, Karsava) — daughter
Sara Pasvolskaya (née Kazantseva) (1876, Staraya Russa – 1945) — mother
Abram Pasvolsky (1871, Karsava – 1941, Lukoyanov, Gorky Region) — father
Frida Rubina (née Pasvolskaya) (born 1907, Karsava) — sister
Avsey Pasvolsky (1910, Karsava – 1941(?)) — brother
Tamara Parmit (née Pasvolskaya) (born 1895, Karsava) — sister
Rasya Kogan (née Pasvolskaya) (born 1913, Karsava) — sister