Kagan-Kan Evgenia Iosifovna (10 August 1951, Riga)

Evgenia Kagan-Kan is the daughter of Iosif Kagan-Kan (b. 1919, Liepāja) and Klara Kagan-Kan (née Vainshtein) (1922, Zhytomyr – 1969, Riga).

In 1968 she completed secondary school in Riga. From 1968–70 she studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute, but was expelled due to poor academic performance.

In 1970 she received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her father’s sister, Rebeka Kagan-Kan (b. 1915, Liepāja).

Family:

Iosif Kagan-Kan (b. 1919, Liepāja) — father
Klara Kagan-Kan (née Vainshtein) (1922, Zhytomyr – 1969, Riga) — mother
Ariy Kagan-Kan (b. 1960, Riga) — brother
Rebeka Kagan-Kan (b. 1915, Liepāja) — aunt (father’s sister)