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Kagan-Kan Rebeka Leibovna (1915)

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SurnameKagan-Kan
NameRebeka
PatronymLeibovna
Birth year1915
Birth month2
Birth day11
Birth placeLiepāja
SexF

Kagan-Kan Rebeka Leibovna (11.02.1915, Liepāja) — nurse. Without completing the Hebrew gymnasium in Riga, in 1935 went to relatives in Kaunas, where she enrolled in the nurse school at the “Bikkur Holim” hospital, graduating in 1938. In 1939, returned to Riga. In 1940–41, worked as senior nurse at the Rēzekne District Hospital. During the war, was in evacuation in Aramil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, where she worked at the Aramil District Hospital and then at a children's crèche in Sverdlovsk. In 1945, returned to Riga. In 1945–46, worked as senior nurse at a boarding school; in 1946–47 — at children's crèche No. 5; in 1947–48 — at city polyclinic No. 6. From 1948, worked at city polyclinic No. 9. From 1950, was a disabled worker. In 1963, applied for permission to leave for Israel. In 1954, married Levin Nison Aronovich (1904, Vilnius — (?)); divorced 1957. Father — Kagan-Kan Leyb Shalomovich (1883, German territory — May 1934, Riga) — bookkeeper. Mother — Kagan-Kan Zhenya Khononovna (1888, Polish territory — (?)) — lived in Telšiai, Lithuania, and from 1914 in Liepāja. Brother — Kagan-Kan Iosif Leontyevich (1919, Liepāja — (?)). Sisters: Kagan-Kan Anna Leibovna (1923, Liepāja — (?)); Kagan-Kan Debora Leibovna (1925, Liepāja — (?)). Mother and sisters perished during the German occupation. Father's brother — Kagan-Kan Iosif Shalomovich (1885, German territory — (?)) — emigrated from Germany to Palestine before World War I. Second cousins: Silberberg Maria — lived in Tel Aviv; Kats-Maitsovsaya Nekhama — lived in Israel.