Krislav (née Kitaichik) Tamara Semyonovna (b. 26 September 1911, village of Lyubonichi, Mogilev Region, Belarus) — physician.

Tamara Krislav was born into the family of an independent handikraftsman, Solomon Meerovich Kitaichik (1870–1935, Lyubonichi), who owned and worked alone on a small buckwheat mill, and his wife, Rakhil Zalmanovna Kitaichik (née Gorelik) (b. 1871, Bobruisk, Mogilev Region – d. 1934, Lyubonichi).

She completed seven years at the local incomplete secondary school (1919–1926), then moved to Chita, where she graduated from the Pedagogical Institute (1926–1930). She worked as assistant principal of a school in the town of Turgen, Chita Region (1930–1931). After returning to Lyubonichi, she was supported by her parents (1931). Later, in Moscow, she worked as a secretary at the Department of the Research Institute of Chemical Defense (1932–1934), and then in Vitebsk (Belarus) as a secretary of the training complex of the “KIM” factory (1934–1937).

She graduated from the Vitebsk Medical Institute (1937–1941), completing her studies in evacuation in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, where the institute had been relocated. From 1942 to 1946, she worked as head of a surgical department, sanitary physician, and head of a rural medical district in the village of Tyumentsevo, Altai Krai.

After moving to Riga, she worked as a physician at the medical station of the “Mara” factory (1946–1949). From 1949 to 1951, she was on disability leave. She later worked as a resident physician at Riga’s 1st City Clinical Hospital (1951–1959), then as senior specialist physician at the Riga Higher Red Banner Artillery Engineering School (1959–1973). Retired in 1973.

Married to Erukhim Mikhailovich Krislav (b. 1906, Vitebsk – d. 1953, Riga). Their son, Semyon Efimovich Krislav, was born in 1937 in Vitebsk.

In 1978, Tamara Krislav received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her niece, Tanya Isaakovna Sorokin (née Makhtina) (b. 1923, Bobruisk), daughter of her sister Goda Solomonovna Makhtina (née Kitaichik), had been living since the 1950s. Later, Tamara Semyonovna moved to the United States.

Note: In 1941, Tanya Sorokin and her mother were imprisoned by the Nazis in the Bobruisk Ghetto; later, Tanya was deported to the Stutthof concentration camp (Germany). She was liberated by the Allies, remained in Germany, and emigrated to Israel in the 1950s. Her mother, Goda Solomonovna, was murdered by the Nazis in the Bobruisk Ghetto in 1941.

Family:

Father: Solomon Meerovich Kitaichik (1870–1935)
Mother: Rakhil Zalmanovna Kitaichik (née Gorelik) (1871–1934)

Brothers:

Leyba Solomonovich Kitaichik (1894, Lyubonichi – 1958, Riga)
Natan Solomonovich Kitaichik (1900, Lyubonichi – 1937, Saratov)

Samuil Solomonovich Kitaichik (1903, Lyubonichi – arrested 1936, died in custody, posthumously rehabilitated)

Meyer Solomonovich Kitaichik (b. 1904, Lyubonichi)

Sisters:

Goda Solomonovna Makhtina (née Kitaichik) (1898–1941)

Brigita Semyonovna Kitaichuk (née Kitaichik) (b. 1907, Lyubonichi)

Tatyana Solomonovna Kagan (née Kitaichik) (b. 1910, Lyubonichi)

Tanya Isaakovna Sorokina (Makhtina) (1923 г.) – niece
Yerukhim Mikhailovich Krislav (1906-1953 гг.) – husband
Semyon Efimovich Krislav (1937 г.) – son