Kuklya (Kukla) (née Zhuk) Rakhil (Rachil) Lvovna (born May 5, 1898, Birzhai, Lithuania – after 1976) — homemaker.

Rakhil Kuklya completed six grades of elementary school. In 1914, during World War I, her family was evacuated to Kostroma, where she worked as an apprentice in a hat-making workshop until 1918. That year she moved to Riga. From 1919 to 1922, she worked as a sales clerk in a grocery store in Riga.

Married Yudel Kuklya (1896, Daugavpils – 1941), who fell heroically in the Second World War. Their sons were Leib Kuklya (born 1924, Riga) and Girsh Kuklya (born 1927, Riga).

From 1922, Rakhil Kuklya was a homemaker. During World War II, she was evacuated to the Kzyl-Gan kolkhoz in the Chkalov District of the Chuvash ASSR. After returning to Riga in 1945, she remained a homemaker.

In 1976, she received permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family:

Yudel Kuklya (1896, Daugavpils – 1941) — husband
Leib Kuklya (born 1924, Riga) — son
Girsh Kuklya (born 1927, Riga) — son
Lev Zhuk (1870, Birzhai, Lithuania – 1910, Birzhai, Lithuania) — father
Tsilya Zhuk (1874, Birzhai, Lithuania – 1930, Riga) — mother
Mikhle (née Zhuk) Mandel (1892, Birzhai, Lithuania – 1963, Riga) — sister
Shulama (née Fogel) Morein (born 1935, Jēkabpils) — sister of her son’s wife