Rabiner Solomon Borisovich (06 February 1906, Polotsk, Vitebsk Province) — clerk.
Solomon Rabiner was left a complete orphan at the age of ten (his father died in 1916, his mother in 1909). In 1917 he moved to Riga with his sister, who was six years older, to live with relatives. In 1919 his sister left Riga. In 1926 he graduated from the Riga Municipal Jewish Gymnasium.
In 1926–29 he was an apprentice at the “Merkur” knitwear factory. In 1929 the factory was closed, and in search of work Solomon Rabiner left for South Africa, but returned to Riga a few months later. He remained unemployed for about three years. In 1932–40 he was employed at the textile factory “R. Feldhun & Co.” as an assistant foreman.
In 1940 he was assigned to work at the Riga State Jewish Theatre as deputy director. With the outbreak of the war he was evacuated with his family to the Vichuga district of Gorky Region, where in 1941–42 he worked as a hammerman at a textile combine. In May 1942 he was mobilised into the Soviet Army and until 28 December 1942 served in the 121st Rifle Regiment of the 43rd Guards Division. After being wounded, he was transferred to the 254th Cherkasy Division and fought on the Ukrainian Front, where the division participated in the breakthrough of the Orel–Kursk salient. In 1944 he was demobilised due to wounds.
In 1944 Solomon Rabiner returned to Riga and until 1955 worked as deputy director of the textile combine “Sarkana Tekstilniece”. In 1955–59 he was a senior foreman at the “8th March” textile factory. In 1959–67 he worked as head of the RMO at the textile combine “Kurzemes Manufaktūra”, and in 1967–71 as a fitter-adjuster at the textile combine “Sakta”. In 1971 he applied for permission to emigrate to Israel for permanent residence.
Solomon Rabiner was awarded the medals “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945” and “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”.
In 1927 he married his cousin, Sterne Markovna Rabiner (1904, Riga – 25 November 1969), an accountant at a kindergarten. In the marriage a daughter and two sons were born:
Yudit Solomonovna Rabiner (1927, Riga – 28 August 1943, Ivanovo Region),
Boris Solomonovich Rabiner (1941, Riga – 1941 (1942?), Ivanovo Region),
Yurii Solomonovich Rabiner.