Bliznyanskaya (née Kogan) Liba Isakovna (17/09/1896, Riga – 1985, Israel) – dressmaker.

Liba Bliznyanskaya completed 4 years of formal education. From 1910 to 1918, she trained at a tailoring workshop in Riga. Between 1925 and 1939, she worked in a sewing workshop. During the war years, she was evacuated to the Kazakh SSR, where she worked from 1942 to 1944 in the sewing artel Put’ (“The Way”). She returned to Riga in 1945.

In 1963, Liba Bliznyanskaya emigrated to Israel.

In 1918, Liba married Moisey Moiseyevich Bliznyansky (1889, territory of Belarus – 1951, Riga), a shoemaker. The marriage produced two sons and two daughters:

Motel Moiseyevich Bliznyansky – worked at a military factory in Kirov

Izaak Moiseyevich Bliznyansky – volunteered for the front and was wounded in action

Maria Moiseyevna Zeligman

Ida Moiseyevna Sheinberger (née Bliznyanskaya) (31/01/1925, Riga – (date unknown)) – married a Polish citizen in 1943; in 1957 they moved to Poland, and later to Tel Aviv, where she worked as a singer.

Her father was Isak Moiseyevich Kogan (1858, Vitebsk – date unknown), a teacher.

Her mother was Rokhilya Motelievna Kogan (1868, Jēkabpils – 1940).

Her brother was Max Isakovich Kogan (1898, Riga – date unknown). He emigrated to the USA in 1920.