Basin (née Michelson) Khaya (Chaya) (b. 15.12.1908, Riga) – medical worker.
Khaya Basina’s parents, Yakov Michelson (1859–1924, born in Bauska) and Ester Michelson (née Rozenthal) (1869–1934, born in Cēsis), lived in Gomel in 1920, where they were both buried.
Education and Career
• 1936 – Completed three years of workers' faculty in Gomel.
• 1938 – Graduated from Gomel Secondary Medical School.
• 1938–1941 – Midwife at the maternity hospital in Gomel.
• 1941–1942 – Midwife at the outpatient clinic in Belyaevka, Chkalov Region.
• 1942–1944 – Head of the medical station in Krasnogor, Chkalov Region.
• 1944–1945 – Assistant epidemiologist at the district epidemiological station in Poltava.
Post-War Years in Riga
In 1946 Khaya Basina moved to Riga where she was a homemaker until 1962. In 1962–1964 she was a nurse at a kindergarten of the Latvian SSR Railway. In 1965–1967 she worked as a weighing clerk at Riga-Tovarnaya station.
Family and Emigration Attempts
Khaya Basina’s brother, Peisach Michelson (b. 1899), lived and worked in Birobidzhan, Primorsky Krai, in the 1960s. Her sister, Perla Shklyarskaya (née Michelson) (1897–1940), passed away in Skidel, Poland (now Grodno District, Belarus). Khaya took in her sister’s children.
In 1947, her sister’s daughter, Rochele Shulman (née Shklyarskaya) (b. 1934), moved to Poland and later emigrated to the USA.
Denied Emigration
In 1966 and 1969, Khaya was denied permission to emigrate to the USA due to inconsistencies in the information provided about her two brothers and two sisters, whom the Ministry of Internal Affairs claimed were living in the USA in the 1960s.
Family Members
• [[en:people:basin_lev|Lev Basin]] (b. 1907) – husband
• Yakov Michelson (1859–1924) – father
• Ester Michelson (née Rozenthal) (1869–1934) – mother
• Rosa Michelson (b. 1901) – sister
• Perla Shklyarskaya (née Michelson) (1897–1940) – sister
• Peisach Michelson (b. 1899) – brother
• Esfir Schneider (née Basina) (b. 1934) – daughter
• Eliza Elkind (née Basina) (b. 1932) – daughter
• Rochele Shulman (née Shklyarskaya) (b. 1934) – sister’s daughter