Fishs (Fischs) (née Shvartsman) Khaya (Chaya) Abramovna (1912 — exact date and place of birth unknown; date of death unknown) - participant in the revolutionary movement, a political prisoner, and later an inmate of a ghetto and Nazi concentration camps.

Khaya Fishs began her working life in Riga, where she was employed as a seamstress. From 1928, during the period of independent Latvia, she was actively involved in underground communist youth (Komsomol) activities, distributing illegal literature, preparing posters and leaflets, and participating in the organization of demonstrations. An illegal printing press operated in her apartment on Pushkina Street 5.

In 1931 she was arrested, but released for lack of evidence, after which she resumed her underground work. In May 1932 she was arrested again and held under the so-called Kerensky law, being released after one year. In 1934 she was once more arrested and sentenced to three years of corrective labor. After her release, from 1937 she continued her involvement in Komsomol activities.

In 1940–1941 Khaya Fishs worked at the sewing factory “Padomju Latvija,” and was active in the Red Cross committee and the factory committee, as well as serving as a lay judge in a people’s court. In June 1941 she was guarding the factory and was unable to evacuate. She was subsequently confined by the German occupation authorities in the Riga ghetto and later deported to the Stutthof concentration camp, and then to Burggraben.

After the capitulation of Nazi Germany, she was liberated and returned to Riga. From 1945 to 1948 she worked as a seamstress in a military unit and in an for disabled persons. From 1948, due to poor health, she was dependent on her husband, a disabled veteran of the Second World War. After his death, she worked for some time as a cleaner in a laboratory at a wagon-building factory. From 1963 she was recognized as a personal pensioner of republican significance.