Foss (née Tsvik) Taube Abramovna (1915, Ventspils) - manicurist.

Taube Foss was born into the family of Abram Tsvik (1881–1941), a timber grader. After completing four classes of the local primary school, in 1930 she entered as an apprentice in the tailoring workshop of Strauss, where she worked until the end of 1933. From 1935 to 1937 she was employed as an unskilled laborer at the Civyan sawmill.

In 1938 she moved to Riga, where until 1939 she worked at the Leibovich brothers’ factory. In 1941 she married Zamuel Foss (1896). In June 1941 she was evacuated to the Kirov region and later moved to Uzbekistan. At the end of 1944she returned to Riga and worked as an orderly in military hospitals until the summer of 1945. After a thirteen-year interruption in employment, she changed her profession in 1958 and in the 1960s worked as a manicurist.

Her parents, Abram Tsvik (1881–1941) and Khana Tsvik (1894–1941), and her sister Feiga Tsvik (1917–1941) were murdered in Ventspils in 1941. Her sister Ester Shmulovich (née Tsvik) (1911–1941) was killed in Riga in 1941. Her sister Mira Tsvik (1931–1941) died in evacuation, and her brother Iosif Tsvik (1925–1944) was killed in action during the war. After emigrating to Israel, she worked at a toy factory in Bat Yam.

Family:

Zamuel Foss (1896) – husband
Abram Tsvik (1881–1941) – father
Khana Tsvik (1894–1941) – mother
Iosif Tsvik (1925–1944) – brother
Ester Shmulovich (née Tsvik) (1911–1941) – sister
Raya (Rokha) Iofan (née Tsvik) (1913) – sister
Feiga Tsvik (1917–1941) – sister
Sheina Grinblat (née Tsvik) (1919–1948) – sister
Mira Tsvik (1931–1941) – sister