Khaimovich (Heimowitsch) Yakov (Jakow) Isaakovich (13 September 1920, Riga — ?, ?) — mechanic and factory worker.

After completing seven grades of a Jewish secondary school, from 1936 to 1939 Yakov Haimovich studied at a Jewish vocational school in the mechanical training program.

From 1939 to 1940 he worked as a mechanic at the depot of the Valmiera narrow-gauge railway, and from 1940 to 1941 as a mechanic at the Riga Wagon Factory (RVR).

Between 1941 and 1944 he was evacuated and worked at the “Remz” factory in Knyazhy Pogost, Komi ASSR. From 1944 to 1945 he served in the active army, first in the 28th Rifle Regiment and later at the headquarters of the 19th Army.

After the war he worked in a series of industrial enterprises in Riga:

  • mechanic at the “Varonis” factory (1945–1947); 

  • worker at the “Jugla” leather factory (1947–1948); 

  • worker at Glavtekstilsbyt (1949–1954); 

  • worker at “Rīgas Audums” (1954–1956); 

  • worker at the Riga district industrial combine (1956–1959); 

  • worker at the tobacco factory (1959–1966); 

  • worker at RBRF (1966–1969); 

  • packer at the REZ factory (from 1969 onward). 

In 1949 he married Polina Markovna Fainshtein. Their daughter was Ella Yakovlevna Khaimovich.

His father, Isaak Abramovich Khaimovich (1887, ? — ?, Israel), emigrated to Israel in the 19??s. His mother was Ella Isaakovna Khaimovich (1889, ? — 1931/32, ?).

His sister, Malka Isaakovna Shtusser (née Khaimovich) (1914, Riga — ?, ?), perished in the ghetto during the Holocaust. His brother, Shimon Isaakovich Khaimovich (1913, Riga — ?, ?), emigrated to Israel in 1937 (?).