Katz (née Azizyan) Sonya Tsalelovna (22 October 1922, Daugavpils) — nurse.

At the beginning of the war, together with her mother, Sonya Katz was evacuated to Gorky Region and later to Yerevan. In 1941 she worked on a collective farm in the Maresyevsky District of Gorky Region. From 1941 to 1946, she was a weaver at the Shaumyan factory in Yerevan. In 1946 she returned to Latvia. From 1952 to 1954 she worked as an orderly in the medical unit of the Riga Aviation School “Rauss” of the Civil Air Fleet. From 1958 to 1979, she was employed as a housekeeper-nurse and orderly at the Riga Psychoneurological Hospital.

Awarded the medal Veteran of Labour.

Her father, Tsalel Azizyan (1893–1919), was born and buried in Vishki, Daugavpils District. Her mother, Tsilya Azizyan (1898–1943), was buried in Yerevan. Her husband, Ovsey Katz (1905–1979), was buried in Riga. In 1973, Sonya Katz emigrated from Latvia.

Family:

Ovsey Katz (1905–1979) — husband
Tsalel Azizyan (1893–1919) — father
Tsilya Azizyan (1898–1943) — mother
Tzemakh Katz (1947) — son
Chaya Handler (née Azizyan) (1924) — sister
Reiza Bushkin (née Levinson) (1921) — mother of her son’s wife