Rafailson Rakhel Yakovlevna (1893)

Rafailson (Rafailsohn) (née Katz) Rakhel (Rachel ) Yakovlevna (17 February 1893, Riga) — nurse.

Rakhel Rafailson was born into the family of tailor Yakov Israelievich Katz (1850, Biržai, Lithuania – 1918) and housewife Tsipa Kalmanovna Katz (1858, Lithuania – murdered by fascists in the Riga ghetto in 1941). She studied at the Poluektov Gymnasium and received incomplete secondary education.

From 1924 to 1941 she worked as a nurse at the Ugale medical district in Ventspils County. During the war she was evacuated to Kyrchany, Kirov Oblast, where she worked as a nurse in the district hospital from 1942 to 1945.

After returning to Riga, she worked as a nurse at the Riga Railway Hospital from 1945 to 1949. From 1949 to 1962 she was dependent on her husband, and since 1962 she had been a first-group invalid.

She was married to David Leibovich Rafailson (1891, Riga). Their sons were Yakov Davidovich Rafailson (1919, Riga – killed on the front in 1942 during the Second World War) and Yuly Davidovich Rafailson (1923, Riga).

In 1971 s Rakhel Rafailson received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her nephew Yehezkiel Nisim Zundeleovich and cousin Kalman Girshovich Feinstein lived.

Family:

Yakov Israelievich Katz - father

Tsipa Kalmanovna Katz - mother

Max Yakovlevich Katz - brother

Mones Yakovlevich Katz - brother (killed in Riga ghetto)

Haim Yakovlevich Katz - brother (killed in Riga ghetto)

Zundel Yakovlevich Katz - brother (killed in Riga ghetto)

Lipa Yakovlevich Katz - brother (before the war lived in Prague, fate unknown)

Lea Yakovlevna Jakobson (née Katz) - sister (killed in Riga ghetto)

Kalman Girshovich Feinstein (1904) — cousin
Yehezkiel Nisim Zundeleovich (1930) — nephew
David Leibovich Rafailson (1891) — husband
Yakov Davidovich Rafailson (1919–1942) — son
Yuly Davidovich Rafailson (1923) — son

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