Kaplan (née Berlin) Zinaida Alexandrovna (24 November 1922, Riga) — clerk.

Zinaida Kaplan was born into a family of employees: her father, Isaak (Alexander) Berovich Berlin (1892, Vitebsk, Belorussia – 1931, Riga), and her mother, Lea Mozusovna Yankovich (Parmīt, in her first marriage Berlin) (1904, Novgorod).

She graduated from Riga Secondary School No. 21 (1941) and was evacuated to Samarkand, Uzbek SSR, where she worked as a registrar at the 1st City Hospital (1941–43) and later as an economist at the “Vartan” artel (1943–44). After returning to Riga, she worked as a planner at the trust “Glavsnabpromstroymaterialy” (1944–45). From 1945 to 1961 she was a homemaker. From 1961 to 1979 she was employed as a senior technician, librarian, engineer, head librarian, and senior engineer at the Central Design and Technology Bureau of the Ministry of Motor Roads of the Latvian SSR.

In her first marriage to Yakov Moselovich (1918, Riga), there were no children; the marriage was dissolved in 1942.

In her second marriage to Bers Leibovich Kaplan (1912, Riga), they had two children: daughter Alexandra Berovna Abelova (née Kaplan) (1945, Riga)and son Mark Berovich Kaplan (1955, Riga).

In 1980 Zinaida Kaplan received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her daughter Alexandra had lived since 1973.

Isaak (Alexander) Berovich Berlin (1892–1931) — father
Lea Mozusovna Yankovich (Parmīt, in 1st marriage Berlin) (1904) — mother
David Samuilovich Yankovich (1908, Riga – died in 1942 on the WWII front near Leningrad) — stepfather
Yakov Moselovich (1918) — first husband
Bers Leibovich Kaplan (1912) — second husband
Alexandra Berovna Abelova (née Kaplan) (1945) — daughter
Mark Berovich Kaplan (1955) — son