Abelskaya (née Feigina) Raya Isaakovna (30 December 1928, Zilupe) – employee. Education – 7 classes. From 1935 to 1941, Raya Abelskaya studied at Zilupe Secondary School.

During the II World War, Raya Abelskaya was evacuated to the Tatar ASSR, Zainsky District, Buguldinsky Village Council, at the Pushkin collective farm. There, she continued her studies, but at the end of 1941 (after her father went to the front), she was forced to interrupt her education and work on the collective farm.

In 1945, her father returned to the Pushkin collective farm due to an injury, and in the same year, the family returned to Zilupe. There, Raya worked as a telephone operator at the Zilupe communications office.

In 1949, Raya Abelskaya moved to Riga with her parents, where she worked as a civilian telephone operator at military unit 75320 until 1951. From 1951 to 1960, she was a laboratory assistant at the Central Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Industrial Construction Materials of the Latvian SSR. From 1960 onwards, she worked in the administration of the hairdressing service as a manicurist and later as a hairdresser.

In 1956, she married Israel Shneerovich Abelsky. Their son, Isaak Israelevich Abelsky, was born in 1957 in Riga.

In 1965, Raya Abelskaya applied for permission to repatriate to Poland.

Her father, Isaak Berkovich Feigin (1896, Dvinsk [Daugavpils] – 1956), worked as a sorter at a flax processing point and in a special construction office of the City Repair and Construction Trust.

Her mother was Feigina (née Lange) Taube Iosifovna.

Her brother, Feigin Hirsh (Grigory) Isaakovich (1926, Daugavpils – (?)), worked as a photographer at the Tukums Consumer Services Combine and lived in Riga. During II World War he volunteered to the front, was wounded twice, and was demobilised in 1956.