Fitingof (Fittinhoff) (née Grinshpon) Rufa Efremovna (22 March 1924, Riga) — nurse.

From 1925 to 1941, Rufa Fitingof lived in Berlin with her parents. In 1940, she completed 9 years of secondary school. After returning to the USSR in 1941, she worked until 1946 on a collective farm in the village of Belotserkovka (Makinsky district, Akmolinsk region).

In 1946–1947, she lived in Arkhangelsk. In 1949, she graduated from a nursing school in Kotlas. The same year, she moved to Riga.

In 1955, she worked as a nurse at the Ludza united hospital. From 1956 to 1979, she worked as a nurse at the Ludza tuberculosis dispensary and at the sanatorium “Belorussia” in Jurmala.

In marriage with Kadish Fitingof (1902, Riga), she had a daughter Inna Rozenberg (née Fitingof) (1951, Riga).

In 1981, Rufa Fitingof received permission to emigrate to Israel, invited by her husband’s sister Tanya Khanin (née Fitingof) (1901, Riga), who had emigrated to Palestine in 1935.

Family:

Kadish Fitingof (1902) — husband
Inna Rozenberg (1951) — daughter
Efrem Grinshpon (1895–1966, Jurmala) — father
Zinaida Grinshpon (née Fishman) (1893) — mother
Tanya Khanin (1901) — sister-in-law