Liusus (Lisus) (Valk) Riva (29 June 1888, Ukmergė, Lithuania [Vilkomir, Kovno Guberniya]) — midwife.

In 1897–1900 Riva Liusus completed parish school in Ukmergė. In 1904 she passed the 9th-grade exams of the girls’ gymnasium in Kovno (Kaunas) as an external student. In 1905 she graduated from the obstetrics and gynecology school in Yuryev (Tartu), receiving a diploma as a first-class midwife.

From 1905 to 1915 she practiced medicine in Kovno Guberniya. In 1915 she and her husband, a grain receiver, moved to Riga, where she continued private midwifery practice. She also worked as a nurse at the Jewish Maternity Hospital in Riga.

In 1941 she was evacuated to Bashkiria, where she worked on the Puskin kolkhoz in the Kadezhinsky village council. In 1944–45 she worked as a midwife and nurse in the town of Bereznikovo, Molotov Region. In 1945, due to worsening health, she was forced to stop working. Later she lived in Riga, supported by her younger daughters.

Family

Riva married Motel Liusus (1868–1931, Riga). Their children:

Sarra Perakh (née Liusus) (1908, Žagarė)

Rasha Ferber (née Liusus) (1909, Žagarė)

Sholem Liusus (1911, Žagarė – 1941; missing in action during WWII)
Feiga Kurland (née Liusus) (1914, Žagarė – 1951, Riga)

Liba (Mera) Shlosmanis / Shlosman (née Liusus) (1917, Riga)

Dveira Liusus (1927, Riga)

Her elder daughters Sarra and Rasha emigrated in the 1930s from Latvia to what is now Israel.

Siblings

Riva’s brothers Motel Volk (1886, Ukmergė – 1948, Johannesburg) and Iosif Volk (1892, Ukmergė) emigrated in the 1930s to South Africa.

Her brother Abram Volk (1890, Ukmergė – 1941, Riga) and sister Rashel Vishneks (née Volk) (1894, Ukmergė – 1941) were killed in the Holocaust.

Parents

Bentsion Volk (… – …, Vilna) — father
Dveira Volk (née Tobyash) (… – 1923) — mother

In 1956 Riva Liusus received permission to emigrate to Israel.