Kvin (Kwin) (née Vulfovich) Elena Shlemovna (b. 30 December 1917, Riga) — seamstress.

Elena Kvin was born into the family of Shlema Beniaminovich Vulfovich (1886–1919, Riga), worker at a mirror factory, and Ester Gilevna Vulfovich (1890, Jaunjelgava – murdered in 1941 by the Nazis in the Riga ghetto), seamstress.

Completed incomplete secondary school (1932), attended evening school, and was also apprenticed to a seamstress. Evacuated in 1941 to Galich, Yaroslavl region, later moved to Kuibyshev (now Samara), where she worked at Factory No. 18 (1942–45). Upon her return to Riga (1945), worked as a seamstress at the Baltijas Modes atelier (1946–47), then was a homemaker (1947–67).

In her first marriage to Yevsei-Girsh Berovich (Abramovich) Galperin (b. 1911, Riga – killed in action in 1942 during the Second World War) there were no children.

In her second marriage to Ber (Boris) Rakhmilevich Kvin (b. 1916) she had two children: daughter Sulamit Borisovna Kvin(b. 1947, Riga) and son Yaari Borisovich Kvin (b. 1951, Riga).

In 1967 Elena Kvin received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1933 (1934) her husband’s uncle, Alter Goldman, had been residing.

Family:

Shlema Beniaminovich Vulfovich (1886–1919) — father
Ester Gilevna Vulfovich (1890–1941) — mother
Abram Shlemovich Vulfovich (b. 1910 – murdered in 1941 in the Riga ghetto) — brother
Mendel Shlemovich Vulfovich (b. 1911, Riga) — brother
Riva Shlemovna Gutkina (née Vulfovich) (1913 – murdered in 1941 in the Riga ghetto) — sister
Gutl Shlemovich Vulfovich (b. 1924 – murdered in 1941 in the Riga ghetto) — brother
Yevsei-Girsh Berovich (Abramovich) Galperin (1911–1942) — first husband
Ber (Boris) Rakhmilevich Kvin (b. 1916) — husband
Sulamit Borisovna Kvin (b. 1947, Riga) — daughter
Yaari Borisovich Kvin (b. 1951, Riga) — son