Kovnat (Kownat) (née Russota) Roza (Rosa) Davydovna (16 July 1904, Grodno – ?, ?) – seamstress.
During the First World War, Roza Kovnat was evacuated to Crimea, where she graduated from secondary school in Yevpatoria in 1921. In 1924–1927, she completed a typing course in Berlin and worked as a typist in a film distribution office. In 1927, she married engineer Lev Abramovich Kovnat (1897, Kraslava – 1941, ? died in the Holocaust), and moved to Riga. In 1932, she divorced her husband. In 1933–34, she took courses in dressmaking and sewing in Paris. In 1934–40, she worked as a seamstress. In 1935–40, she was a member of an underground anti-fascist movement. In 1940–41, she was a senior instructor in dressmaking and sewing at the Ort craft school (Riga). In 1941–42, she was evacuated and worked as a seamstress for the Promkooperator sewing artel in the village of Razdor, Kamyzyaksky District, Astrakhan Region. In 1942–44, she was the head of the costume department of the Latvian State Artistic Ensemble (Ivanovo, Riga). In 1945–47, she was the head of the costume department of the State Theatre for Young Audiences (Riga). In 1947–48, she was a senior master at the sewing workshop of the Maksla production combine, and in 1948–49, she was a cutter at the 9 May artel, in 1949 she was a cutter at workshop No. 1 of the Torgmortrans combine, and from 1949 to 1963 she was the head of cutting and sewing courses at the central club of the Latvian SSR State Trade Workers' Union. Awarded the medal ‘For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45’.
Daughter: Elizaveta Lvovna Frank (born 1928, Riga)
Father: Rusota David Pavlovich (1874, Grodno – 1928, Berlin)
Mother: Rusota Klara Semenovna (1880, Zhytomyr – 1949, Israel)
Sister: Esther Davidovna Isakson (1903, Grodno – ?, ?), emigrated to the Netherlands
Brothers:
Artur Davydovich (1908, Grodno – ?, ?), emigrated to the USA
Alexander Davydovich (1910, Grodno – ?, ?), emigrated to Israel (Tel Aviv)
Daniil Davydovich Rusota (1910, Grodno – 1964, Israel).
In 1958 and 1964, Roza Kovnat was denied permission to leave for the Netherlands.
Mother: Klara Russot.