Faitelson (Feitelsohn) Feiga Davidovna (22 May 1935, Panevėžys) — chemical engineer.

Feiga Faitelson was the daughter of Sonya Shapiro (1903, Daugavpils — 1930, Vilnius) and David Shapiro (1903, Daugavpils — 1943). In 1941, she was evacuated to the city of Jambul in the Kazakh SSR. In 1945, she returned from evacuation to Vilnius.

In 1960, she graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Vilnius State University and moved to Riga. From 1960 to 1962, she worked as an engineer at the Central Design and Technology Bureau of the Latvian SSR Council of National Economy. In 1962–1963, she was an engineer at the Riga Institute of Civil Air Fleet Engineers. From 1963 to 1966, she worked as an engineer at the Institute of Organic Synthesis of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR. From 1966 to 1968, she worked at the chemical reagents plant “Reagent.” In 1968, she was an engineer at the Latvian Research Institute of Hydrotechnics and Land Reclamation. From 1969 to 1970, she worked as an agent in the State Insurance inspection of the Kirov District of Riga.

Her father died heroically on the front during the Second World War. Her brother, Yakov Shapiro (1927, Panevėžys), was imprisoned in the Stutthof concentration camp; after liberation in 1945, he emigrated to Israel. Her sister, Rachel Tel (née Shapiro) (1929, Panevėžys), lived and worked in Lithuania in the 1960s.

In 1970, she received permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family :

Volf (1938) Faitelson — husband
Sonya (1903–1930) Shapiro — mother
David (1903–1943) Shapiro — father
Rachel (1929) Tel (née Shapiro) — sister
Yakov (1927) Shapiro — brother
Rachel (1905) Faitelson (née Gutman) — husband’s maternal aunt
Maria (1920) Khulina (née Gutman) — husband’s maternal aunt