Vapne Sheva Yakovlevna (1928)

Vapne (Wapne) (née Latvinskaya) Sheva (Schewa) Yakovlevna (born 3 May 1928, Riga) – clerical worker.

Sheva Vapne was born into the family of Yankel Abramovich Latvinsky (1885–1934, Preiļi, Latvia) and Vera Vulfovna Latvinskaya (née Zangvil) (b. 1886, Preiļi – d. 1978, Riga).

She completed a specialised secondary school education. During the war, she was evacuated to the Fergana Region of the Uzbek SSR, where she worked at the Kyzyl Uzbekistan collective farm (1941–1942). After relocating to the Chuvash ASSR, she worked at the Pobeda collective farm in the Batyrevsky District (1942–1943). In Kazan, Tatar ASSR, she studied and worked at a trade school (1943–1945).

Upon returning to Riga, she worked as a sales assistant at the ORS of the Ministry of Communications (1945–1947) and at the ORS of Construction-Montage Trust No. 1 (1947–1948). From 1948 to 1955, she was a homemaker.

She then worked as a milliner at the Rīgas Cepure hat factory (1955–1959), at the Baltijas Modes atelier (1959), at the Textile-Garment-Footwear Trade industrial enterprise (1959–1963), at the Brīvība garment factory (1963), and at the Proletarsky District Consumer Services Complex (1963–1968). From 1968 to 1978, she was employed at the Siluets production association.

From her marriage to Meyer Khonovich Vapne (b. 1924, Līvāni, Latvia), she had two children: Khona Meyerovich Vapne (b. 1949, Riga) and Bella Meyerovna Vapne (b. 1958, Riga). The marriage was dissolved in 1969.

In 1978, Sheva Vapne received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her sister Noima Yankelovna Khavkin (née Latvinskaya) (b. 1918, Preiļi) had been living since 1937, and her brother Itskhok Yankelovich Latvinsky (b. 1930, Preiļi) since 1971.

Yankel Abramovich Latvinsky (1885–1934) – father
Vera Vulfovna Latvinskaya (née Zangvil) (1886–1978) – mother
Noima Yankelovna Khavkin (née Latvinskaya) (b. 1918) – sister
Abram Yankelovich Latvinsky (b. 1920, Preiļi – d. 1941, killed at the front near Moscow in WWII) – brother
Leya Yankelovna Aryeva (née Latvinskaya) (b. 1922, Preiļi) – sister
Leyzer Yankelovich Latvinsky (b. 1924, Preiļi – d. 1943, killed at the front in WWII) – brother
Itskhok Yankelovich Latvinsky (b. 1930) – brother
Meyer Khonovich Vapne (b. 1924) – former husband (emigrated to Israel in 1972)
Khona Meyerovich Vapne (b. 1949) – son
Bella Meyerovna Vapne (b. 1958) – daughter