Fain (Fein) (née Lisitsa; first marriage — Polishchuk) Liya (Lija) Elyevna (14 June 1921, Daugavpils) — unskilled worker.

In 1931, Liya Fain was an apprentice to the tailor Shtenberg. A year later, after her father fell ill, she was placed in an orphanage, where she lived and worked as a seamstress’s assistant until 1937. She then moved to Riga to live with her brother and began working as a seamstress for the tailor Silberman. In 1940, she worked as a winder at “Rīgas Manufaktūra.”

At the outbreak of the war, she was evacuated to the Kirov Region, where she worked on a state farm. She later went to the Saratov Region to join her husband and relatives, working on a collective farm; during the evacuation, however, she lost contact with them. In 1942, she moved to Yurga station in the Kemerovo Region, where she worked at Plant No. 75 until 1944. That same year, she relocated to the Kazakh SSR, working in a mine canteen.

In 1946, she returned to Riga and worked at the industrial combine of the Moscow District (confectionery factory). From 1947, she was a homemaker. In 1959, she visited relatives in Poland. In 1971, she applied for permission to emigrate to Israel for permanent residence.

In 1941, she married David Iosifovich Polishchuk; the marriage was dissolved in 1942. In 1946, she married for the second time, to Beniamin Yakovlevich Fain. They had two daughters: Asya Beniaminovna Wasserman (née Fain) and Ella Beniaminovna Fain.

Her father, Elya Lisitsa, died in 1937 in Daugavpils; her mother, Basya Lisitsa, died in 1929 in Daugavpils. Her brother, Isaac Elyevich Lisitsa (1913, Dvinsk / Daugavpils — ?), was killed at the front. Her sister, Bunya Elyevna Etingof (née Lisitsa) (1916, Dvinsk / Daugavpils — ?), emigrated to Israel in 1935, where she worked as an accountant.