Foss Rakhil (Rachil) Isaakovna (1 July 1925, Ukmergė, Lithuania) - physician.

In 1929 her family moved to Latvia, settling first in Varaklani, and in 1934 in Riga. Rakhil Foss studied at a gymnasium and completed nine classes before the outbreak of the Second World War. During the war she was evacuated to Kungur in the Molotov region, where in 1943 she entered the Molotov Medical Institute.

After the war she returned to Riga and in 1949 graduated from the medical faculty of the Latvian State University. She was assigned to work in Dobele as head of the venereological office of the Dobele district. From 1 March 1950 she worked as a gynecologist at the Dobele district hospital. From 1 October 1950 she was employed in the 4th Riga City United Hospital as head of the medical unit at the glass factory “Kommunar.”

Her father was killed at the front in 1944. Her mother, B. Kh. Elyashevich, was a teacher at the 1st Railway Secondary School in Riga. She was married to Kurt Vulfovich Foss, a workshop foreman at the “Lenta” factory. Their son, Ilya, was born in 1952.

Family:

B. Kh. Elyashevich – mother
Kurt Vulfovich Foss – husband
Ilya Foss (1952) – son