Smolyar Khaya Borukhovna (1935)

Smolyar (Smolar) (née Kaplan) Khaya (Chaja) Borukhovna (b. 4 October 1935, Riga) — teacher.

From 1941 to 1946, Khaya Smolyar was in evacuation in the village of Dzerzhinskoye, Krasnoyarsk Territory. After graduating from Secondary School No. 17, from 1953 to 1958 she studied at the Riga Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics.

From 1958 to 1962, she worked as a teacher of astronomy and electrical engineering at Riga Secondary School No. 40; in 1962, as a physics teacher at Secondary School No. 15 and as a teacher in an extended-day group; in 1963, as a teacher in an extended-day group at Eight-Year School No. 25.

Since 1957, she was married to Mikhail (Michael) Mikhailovich Smolyar (Moiseevich) (b. 17 December 1929, Korosten).

Their son is Boris Mikhailovich Smolyar (b. 19 April 1963, Riga), and their daughter is Ilana Mikhailovna Smolyar (b. 22 May 1961, Riga).

Her mother, Musya Abramovna Kaplan (1912, Riga — ?, ?), emigrated to Israel in 1960.

Her aunt, Rassi Abramovna Kann (? — ?), emigrated to Israel (Tel Aviv) in 1935.

Khaya Smolyar emigrated to Israel in 1967.

Family:

Mikhail (Michael) Mikhailovich Smolyar (b. 17 December 1929, Korosten) — husband
Boris Mikhailovich Smolyar (b. 19 April 1963, Riga) — son
Ilana Mikhailovna Smolyar (b. 22 May 1961, Riga) — daughter
Musya Abramovna Kaplan (1912, Riga — ?, ?) — mother
Rassi Abramovna Kann (? — ?) — aunt