Rabinovich Ida Ilyashevna (1904)

Rabinovich (Rabinowitsch) (née Schmidt) Ida Ilyashevna (4 October 1904, Kamai, Lithuania) — shop assistant.

Ida Rabinovich was the daughter of Elias Schmidt (1866, Lithuania — 1941, Riga) and Raikha Schmidt (1865, Kamai, Lithuania — 1918, Riga). She completed three years of primary schooling. In 1915–17, she was a trainee shop assistant. In 1918–23, she worked as a saleswoman in a haberdashery shop owned by her father. In 1923, R. opened her own haberdashery shop, which in 1924 she transferred to her husband to manage. Until 1940 — housewife. In 1940–41 — saleswoman in a state haberdashery shop. In 1940, Ida Rabinovich was deported from Latvia as the wife of a merchant. Until 1946 — hired worker at the Voroshilov kolkhoz in Parabel, Tomsk Region. In 1946–55 — housewife, living in Parabel. In 1955, Ida Rabinovich moved to Kolpashevo and in 1958 returned to Riga.

Married to Bers Rabinovich (1895, Riga — 1969, Tel Aviv), they had children: Iosif Rabinovich (1937, Riga) (lived in Tomsk in the 1960s) and Riva Rabinovich (1931, Riga).

In the Holocaust, Ida’s sisters Feiga Lakhman (née Schmidt) (1893, Kamai, Lithuania — 1941, Riga) and Ester Rivkind (née Schmidt) (1897(?), Kamai, Lithuania — 1941, Riga) perished. Her sisters Basya Smal (née Schmidt) (…, Kamai, Lithuania), Asna Kerbel (née Schmidt) (…, Kamai, Lithuania — 1961, USA), Sheine Schmidt (…) and brothers Yakov Schmidt (…) and Itsik-Motel Schmidt (1895, Kamai, Lithuania — 1929, Baltimore, USA) emigrated to the USA in the 1910s–1920s.

In 1963, Ida Rabinovich emigrated to Tel Aviv at the invitation of her husband’s brother, Shleime-Akiva Rabinovich (1888, Riga — 1967, Tel Aviv).

Family:

Bers Rabinovich (1895, Riga — 1969, Tel Aviv) — husband
Iosif Rabinovich (1937, Riga) — son
Riva Rabinovich (1931, Riga) — daughter
Elias Schmidt (1866, Lithuania — 1941, Riga) — father
Raikha Schmidt (1865, Kamai, Lithuania — 1918, Riga) — mother
Basya Smal (née Schmidt) (…, Kamai, Lithuania) — sister
Asna Kerbel (née Schmidt) (…, Kamai, Lithuania — 1961, USA) — sister
Feiga Lakhman (née Schmidt) (1893, Kamai, Lithuania — 1941, Riga) — sister
Sheine Schmidt (…) — sister