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Bul Khana-Rise Semenovna (1929)

Personal data
SurnameBul
NameKhana-Rise
PatronymSemenovna
Birth year1929
Birth month8
Birth day22
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Bul (née Kilyun) Khana-Rise Semenovna (b. 22 August 1929, Riga) — shop assistant.

Khana-Rise Bul was born into the family of Semen Leibovich Kilyun (b. 1899, Riga), a painter, and Sonya (alternatively: Sora) Aronovna Kilyun (née Feldman) (1894, Utena, Lithuania – 1967, Riga), a homemaker.

She attended three grades of a Jewish secondary school (1937–1941). From 1941 to 1945, she was evacuated to Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR.

Upon returning to Riga, she completed four more grades at Secondary School No. 17 (1945–1949).

She worked as a sales assistant at ORS-NOD-1 of the Baltic Railway (1953–1956), was a homemaker from 1956 to 1961, and then worked as a shop assistant at the 2nd City Industrial Trade Company (1961–1971).

In her marriage to Elyas Ruvinovich Bul (b. 1925, Riga), a daughter was born: Tatyana Elyasovna Bul (b. 1956, Riga).

In 1971, Khana-Rise Bul received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her husband’s sister, Chaya-Nechama Ruvinovna Golbesberg (née Bul) (b. 1930), had been residing since 1945.

Family members:

Semen Leibovich Kilyun (b. 1899) — father
Sonya (Sora) Aronovna Kilyun (née Feldman) (1894–1967) — mother
Arkady Semenovich Kilyun (b. 1924, Riga) — brother
Lea Semenovna Roze (née Kilyun) (b. 1928, Riga) — sister
Elyas Ruvinovich Bul (b. 1925) — husband
Tatyana Elyasovna Bul (b. 1956) — daughter
Chaya-Nechama Ruvinovna Golbesberg (née Bul) (b. 1930) — husband’s sister