Marat Khava (Chava) Iosifovna (25 August 1925, Riga) — bookkeeper.
Khava Marat was the daughter of Iosif Ilya Marat (1897, Riga) and Sima Marat (née Klebanova) (1904, Belarus — 1944, Chuvash ASSR). In 1941, she completed eight grades of a Jewish school in Riga. She was evacuated to the town of Buinsk in the Chuvash ASSR. From 1941 to 1945, she worked at an oil-shale mine as a trainee bookkeeper and subsequently as a bookkeeper.
In 1945, she returned to Rēzekne and until 1946 worked as a cost clerk in a public catering canteen. In 1946–1947, she was employed as an accountant at the Amur restaurant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. In 1947, she worked as an accountant at the Lido restaurant of the Latosobrestoran trust in Jūrmala. In 1948, she was an accountant at Canteen No. 21 of the Riga Trust of Canteens, Restaurants, and Cafés. In 1949, she worked as a stamp clerk at the Moscow restaurant of the Riga Model Restaurants Trust.
In 1951, she was a cost clerk at the Amur restaurant attached to the Astoria restaurant. From 1952 to 1953, she worked as a stamp clerk and cost clerk at Canteen No. 17 of the Riga branch of the Military Trade Administration. In 1955, she was a stamp clerk at the Lyra café and the Amur restaurant, and later that year a cost clerk at the Majori café of the Dzintars restaurant in Jūrmala. From 1958 to 1963, she worked as a stamp clerk at Canteen No. 75 of the Riga Catering Trust. From 1964, she was employed as a cashier-collector at Canteen No. 75 of the Public Catering Trust of the Moscow District of Riga (Enterprise No. 14 of the Kirov Public Catering Trust).
Khava Marat was awarded the medal For Valiant Labour in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin.
She was married to Arkady Gorelik (1923, Gomel Region). Their daughters were Sima Taits (née Gorelik) (1948, Riga) and Stella Gorelik (1956, Riga). In 1980, she received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her sister, Ester Brant (née Marat) (1931, Riga).
Family:
Arkady Gorelik (1923, Gomel Region) — husband
Sima Taits (née Gorelik) (1948, Riga) — daughter
Stella Gorelik (1956, Riga) — daughter
Iosif Ilya Marat (1897, Riga) — father
Sima Marat (née Klebanova) (1904, Belarus — 1944, Chuvash ASSR) — mother
Ester Brant (née Marat) (1931, Riga) — sister
Aviva Vorkel (née Marat) (1935, Riga) — sister
Ilana Marat (1949, Riga) — half-sister