Fitingof (Fitinhoff) Kadish (Kadisch) Solomonovich (4 August 1902, Riga) — engineer.
Kadish Fitingof was the son of Solomon Fitingof (1865, Riga — 1916, Riga) and Lea Fitingof (née Birger) (1870, Panemunė, Lithuania — 1941, Riga).
In 1936, he graduated from the engineering faculty of the Latvian State University, receiving a qualification as a civil engineer. From 1936 to 1940, he worked as a construction engineer for a private contractor, Nikitin, in Daugavpils and Jelgava.
From 1940 to 1941, he served as a senior engineer at the Latvian Republican Design Office.
In 1941, he was evacuated to the settlement of Vata (Gorky region), where he worked as an engineer in the capital construction department at the “Trud” factory. In 1942, he moved to Fergana.
That same year, he was drafted into the Soviet Army. He served as a private in the 43rd Latvian Rifle Division and was demobilized in 1943 after being wounded.
From 1943 to 1944, he worked as a construction engineer in the Tambov Trade Fruit and Vegetable Trust.
In 1944, he returned to Riga, where he worked as a senior engineer in a Riga design office.
Career after the war:
• 1945–1946 — site manager, senior construction supervisor (Project No. 55, Riga)
• 1946–1947 — construction engineer in the Riga district housing maintenance department
• 1948–1950 — senior engineer, Riga design office
• 1951–1966 — senior estimator at the Baltic branch of Gipromyasomolprom (later “Latgiproprom”)
• 1966–1967 — engineer-estimator at “Latkolkhozproject”
• 1967–1970 — foreman, laborer in construction trusts “Rīgastroy”
• 1970–1971 — engineer at “Latgiprostroy” and planning department of the consumer union construction unit
• 1973 — foreman at Main Oil Supply Construction Unit
• 1974–1975 — worker at SU-60, “Rīgastroy”
In 1975 he retired.
Kadish Fitingof was awarded medals: “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”, “20 Years of Victory” ,“30 Years of Victory”
In marriage with Rufa Fitingof (née Grinshpon) (1924, Riga), he had a daughter Inna Rozenberg (née Fitingof) (1951, Riga).
During the Holocaust, his mother and siblings were murdered: Moses Fitingof (1893, Riga — 1942, Riga), Rafael Fitingof (1899, Riga — 1942, Kaunas), Sonya Fitingof (1898, Riga — 1942, Riga)
Other siblings:
• Grigory Fitingof (1892, Riga — 1971, Voronezh)
• Rosa Fitingof (1895, Riga — 1979, Leningrad)
In 1981, Kadish Fitingof received permission to emigrate to Israel, invited by his sister Tanya Khanin (née Fitingof) (1901, Riga), who had emigrated to Palestine in 1935.
Family:
Rufa Fitingof (1924) — wife
Inna Rozenberg (1951) — daughter
Solomon Fitingof (1865–1916) — father
Lea Fitingof (1870–1941) — mother
Grigory Fitingof (1892–1971) — brother
Moses Fitingof (1893–1942) — brother
Rafael Fitingof (1899–1942) — brother
Rosa Fitingof (1895–1979) — sister
Sonya Fitingof (1898–1942) — sister
Tanya Khanin (1901) — sister