Ulfkelman Asya Leybovna (1912)

Ulfkelman (Ulfkelmann) ((née Kivotnik) Asya (Asja) Leybovna (5 April 1912, Riga) — seamstress.

Asya Ulfkelman was born into the family of Leyba Kivotnik (1887, Riga — 1930) and Khana Kivotnik (1889, Riga — 1961). She completed six grades of primary school. From 1927 to 1941, she worked as a shop assistant in Zuckerman’s store in Riga.

In 1942–1943, she worked as a seamstress in the artel “Krasnaya Zarya” in Yangiyul (Tashkent Region). In 1943–1944, she was employed as an orderly at a dispensary in Chelyabinsk. From 1944 to 1946, she worked as a quality control inspector (OTK) at the Bogoslovsk Aluminium Plant in Krasnoturyinsk (Sverdlovsk Region).

In 1946, she returned to Riga, where until 1949 she worked as a seamstress in the artel “9 May.” From 1949, she was a homemaker.

She was married to Hirsh Ulfkelman (1910, Daugavpils). Her brother, Shmerel Kivotnik (1914, Riga — 1942), was killed at the фронтах of the Great Patriotic War. One of her sisters died during the war. Her sisters Nekhama Kivotnik (1923, Riga) and Roza Zalberbrandt (née Kivotnik) (1925, Riga) were living in Riga in the 1960s.

In 1968, she received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her sister Bella Fisher (née Kivotnik) (1920, Riga), who had repatriated from Latvia in 1959 as the wife of a Polish citizen.

Family:

Hirsh Ulfkelman (1910, Daugavpils) — husband
Leyba Kivotnik (1887–1930) — father
Khana Kivotnik (1889–1961) — mother
Shmerel Kivotnik (1914–1942) — brother
Basya Kivotnik (1927–1942) — sister
Nekhama Kivotnik (1923, Riga) — sister
Roza Zalberbrandt (née Kivotnik) (1925, Riga) — sister
Bella Fisher (née Kivotnik) (1920, Riga) — sister