Lipshits(Lipschitz) (née Ioffe) Sara Notelevna (13 December 1894, Popolyany, Shiauliai District – 1983, Riga) – dental surgeon.

Sara Lipshits was born on 13 December 1894 in the village of Popolyany, Shiauliai District, the daughter of Notel Ioffe (1865, Žagarė, Lithuania – 1931) and Ester Ioffe (1864, Lithuania – …). She completed secondary school in Vilnius in 1913 and graduated from Moscow Dental School No. 1 in 1918.

From 1920 to 1940 she worked as a dental surgeon at the Jelgava Sick Fund branch located in Bauska. In 1940–41 she served as a dental surgeon at the Bauska Polyclinic. In 1941 she was evacuated to the Temir District of Akmola Region. Until 1945 she was head of the medical post in the settlement of Shubar-Kuduk. In 1946 she returned to Riga. Until 1958 she worked as a dental surgeon at the Bauska Polyclinic. From 1958 she was retired.

In her marriage to Ekhil Lipshits (1889, Bauska – 1941, Bauska) were born her sons Abram Lipshits (1919, Bauska) and Hirsh Lipshits (1927, Bauska). Her husband died during the evacuation from Bauska.

During the Holocaust her brother Moisei Ioffe (1902, Popolyany – 1941) and sister Sheina Shleimovich (née Ioffe) (1905, Popolyany – 1941) were killed. Her brother Grigory Ioffe (1886, Popolyany) lived in Gorky in the 1960s. Her sister Hana Bentov (née Ioffe) (1888, Popolyany) emigrated to Palestine in 1935. In the 1960s Sara Lipshits was denied permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family:

Ekhil Lipshits (1889, Bauska – 1941, Bauska) – husband
Abram Ekhilevich Lipshits (1919, Bauska) – son
Hirsh Lipshits (1927, Bauska) – son
Notel Ioffe (1865, Žagarė, Lithuania – 1931) – father
Ester Ioffe (1864, Lithuania – …) – mother
Grigory Ioffe (1886, Popolyany) – brother
Moisei Ioffe (1902, Popolyany – 1941) – brother
Hana Bentov (née Ioffe) (1888, Popolyany) – sister
Sheina Shleimovich (née Ioffe) (1905, Popolyany – 1941) – sister