Kan (née Shubin) Sonya Zalmanovna (19 October 1894, Pyatnitskoye village, Toropetsky Uyezd, Pskov Governorate — ?) — shop assistant.
Sonya Kan received primary education in Toropets. From 1906 to 1910, she was an apprentice in a drapery shop in Toropets. In 1910, Kan moved with her parents to Riga, where she worked as a shop assistant in private shops until 1924. From 1924 to 1932, she lived in Poland.
In 1941, she was evacuated from Riga to the Soviet rear. Between 1942 and 1945, she worked as a storekeeper at a psychiatric colony in Semipalatinsk. In 1946, she returned to Riga, and until 1947 worked as a vendor at the Riga Russian Drama Theatre.
In her marriage to Abram Kan (1897, Tukums — 1953), she had a daughter, Gita Belkind (née Kan) (1924, Kalisz, Poland).
Her parents, Zalman Shubin (1860, Belarus — 1941, Riga) and Nechama Shubin (1868, Belarus — 1941, Riga), perished in the Holocaust.
The Shubin family had eight children: Arkady Shubin (1892, Pskov Governorate), lived in Ulyanovsk in the 1960s, Hirsh Shubin (1893, Pskov Governorate — 1904), Sonya Shubin (the subject), Tsilya Gindelovich (née Shubin) (1898, Pskov Governorate — 1962), Boris Shubin (1896, Pskov Governorate — 1955), Dora Kram (née Shubin) (1900, Pskov Governorate), emigrated to the USA in 1921, Srol Shubin (1902, Pskov Governorate), left for Palestine in 1920, settled in the USA in 1927, Moses Shubin (1904, Pskov Governorate), lived and worked in Riga in the 1960s, Yakov Shubin (1907, Pskov Governorate), emigrated to the USA in the 1920s
In 1966, Sonya Kan received permission to emigrate to Israel.
Family
Abram Kan (1897, Tukums — 1953) — husband
Gita Belkind (née Kan) (1924, Kalisz, Poland) — daughter
Zalman Shubin (1860, Belarus — 1941, Riga) — father
Nechama Shubin (1868, Belarus — 1941, Riga) — mother
Arkady Shubin (1892, Pskov Governorate) — brother
Hirsh Shubin (1893, Pskov Governorate — 1904) — brother
Tsilya Gindelovich (née Shubin) (1898, Pskov Governorate — 1962) — sister
Boris Shubin (1896, Pskov Governorate — 1955) — brother
Dora Kram (née Shubin) (1900, Pskov Governorate) — sister
Srol Shubin (1902, Pskov Governorate) — brother
Moses Shubin (1904, Pskov Governorate) — brother
Yakov Shubin (1907, Pskov Governorate) — brother