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NameBeola
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Birth year1940
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Katsnelson Rokha Leibovna (1891)

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SurnameKatsnelson
NameRokha
PatronymLeibovna
Birth year1891
Birth month5
Birth day10
birth_placeVileyka
SexF

Katsnelson (née Golub) Rokha Leibovna (10 May 1891, Vileyka) – seamstress.

From 1907, Rokha Katznelson trained as a seamstress with a dressmaker, where she then worked until 1911. In 1941, she evacuated with her family to the village of Berezovka in the Zherpovsky District of the Saratov Region, where she worked as a seamstress on a collective farm. In 1945, she returned to Vileyka and worked as a seamstress at an industrial combine until 1957. She later moved to Riga. In 1911, she married Saul Gilevich Katsnelson (1882, Vileyka – 1942, Berezovka village, Zherpovsky district, Saratov region), a shoemaker. The couple had three daughters and a son: Lea Avidan (née Katsnelson) (1915, Vileyka – (?)) – in 1936 she moved to Tel Aviv (her husband was a builder), Riva Katsnelson (22 April 1918, Vileyka - (?)), Mera Katznelson (1924, Vileika – 1942, Vileyka, Byelorussian SSR) – killed by German invaders, Izhak Katznelson (1922, Vileyka – (?)) – radio engineer, repatriated to Poland in 1957, from there he moved to Israel in 1958 (wife – teacher; has two children). Father – Leib Golub ((?), Vileika – 1919, Vileika). Mother – Ite Golub ((?), Vileyka – 1923, Vileyka).