Yakobson Fayve Benyaminovich (1926)

Yakobson Fayve Benyaminovich (1926, Ventspils) — fitter. Son of Yakobson Benyamin (… — 1970) and Yakobson Gita (1896, Ventspils). He completed 8 grades of secondary school. In 1941 he was evacuated with his parents to Kirov Region. In 1944 he was conscripted into the Soviet Army; until 1952 — senior forwarding agent at a telegraph office in Baku. After demobilization in 1952, Ya. returned to Ventspils. Until 1953 — fitter at the city industrial combine. In 1953—54 — fitter at the Ventspils Workers' Combine. In 1954 he moved to Riga. In 1954 — fitter at the “Kalvis” artel. In 1954—55 — senior technician at Riga's 31st Housing Management Office. In 1955—62 — shoemaker at the invalids' artel and at the supply-and-distribution department of the Latvian Railway. In 1962 — fitter at the Riga Furniture and Apartment Repair Combine. In 1962—63 — tinsmith at the Construction Management of the Academy of Sciences of the LSSR. In 1963—64 — foreman at the “Metallsbytremomt” plant. In 1964—65 — milling machine operator at the VEF plant. From 1967 — intake cashier at enterprises in Jūrmala. He was awarded the medals “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941—45” and “30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy.” In his marriage to Yakobson (née Smotkina) Ita (1930, Riga), children Yakobson Vulf (1955, Riga) and Yakobson Bronya (1961, Riga) were born. Ya.'s sisters, Tsals (née Zavadskaya, Yakobson) Mira (1929, Ventspils) and Kravetskaya (née Yakobson) Riva (1931, Ventspils), lived and worked in Latvia in the 1970s. In 1963 Ya. filed his first petition for emigration to Israel at the invitation of his wife's relatives. The petition for emigration was granted only in 1971.

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Yakobson (née Smotkina) Ita (1930, Riga) — wife
Yakobson Vulf (1955, Riga) — son
Yakobson Bronya (1961, Riga) — daughter
Yakobson Benyamin (… — 1970) — father
Yakobson Gita (1896, Ventspils) — mother
Tsals (née Zavadskaya,
Yakobson) Mira (1929, Ventspils) — sister
Kravetskaya (née Yakobson) Riva (1931, Ventspils) — sister