Lipshits(Lipschitz) (née Kugel) Faina Mikhailovna ( born 25 July 1948, Riga) - feldsher-laboratory assistant

Faina Lipshits was born to Mikhail Nakhmanovich Kugel (1923, Dvinsk, today Daugavpils – 1968, Riga) and Dintsa Solomonovna Kugel (born 1928, Odessa).

She completed Riga Eight-Year School No. 32 in 1963 and graduated from Riga Medical College No. 2 in 1966.

In 1966–1967 she was a laboratory assistant at the Republican Children’s Clinical Hospital, in1967–1969 – laboratory assistant at the Republican Sanitary-Epidemiological Station, in 1969–1971 – hairdresser at the Laimdota combine.

She married Alexander Aronovich Lipshits (born 1951, Riga); the couple had no children.

In 1971 Faina Lipshits received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her husband’s uncle — Eliezer Akabas (born 1907, Kaunas), a cousin of her husband’s mother — had been living since the 1930s.

Family:

• Mikhail Nakhmanovich Kugel (1923–1968) – father
• Dintsa Solomonovna Kugel (born 1928) – mother
• Raisa Mikhailovna Kugel (born 1955, Riga) – sister
• Alexander Aronovich Lipshits (born 1951) – husband
• Eliezer Akabas (born 1907) – husband’s uncle