Rabinovich (Rabinowitsch) Estere Ioselevna (16 August 1917, Vitebsk) - teacher

Estere Rabinovich was born into the family of Iosel Moiseevich Rabinovich (1876, Vitebsk — 1928, Jelgava) and Beyla Meyerovna Rabinovich (née Katz) (1881, Jelgava — 1970, Riga). She received pedagogical education (1934–1936, Riga Teachers’ Institute; in 1953 graduated from the Latvian State Pedagogical Institute) and worked as a teacher at the municipal Jewish primary school (1937, Jelgava), at the municipal Jewish school (1937–1940, Tukums), and at an incomplete secondary school (1940–1941, Sabile). She was evacuated to the Yaransky district of Kirov Region, where she worked as a labourer at the “Yelkino” kolkhoz (1941–1943); in 1945 she taught German at the Kirov State Pedagogical Institute and worked as an accountant at the Yaransk distillery (1945). She returned to Riga in 1945; until 1947 worked as an inspector at Prisoner-of-War Camp No. 277, senior accounting inspector at Special Hospital No. 3338 (1947–1948), taught at the officers’ school of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (1948–1950), and worked as a teacher at Riga Secondary School No. 26 (1950–1970).

In 1987 Estere Rabinovich received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1966 her sister Frida Hertzenberg (née Rabinovich) had been living.

Family:

Iosel Moiseevich Rabinovich (1876, Belarus — 1928, Jelgava) — father
Beyla Meyerovna Rabinovich (née Katz) (1881, Jelgava — 1970, Riga) — mother
Raya Ioselevna Reznik (née Rabinovich) (1909, Jelgava — 1967, Israel) — sister
Kreine Ioselevna Rabinovich (1910, Jelgava) — sister
Frida Ioselevna Hertzenberg (née Rabinovich) (1920, Jelgava) — sister
Naum Ioselevich Rabinovich (1923, Jelgava — 1983, Riga) — brother
Iosif Ioselevich Rabinovich (1928, Jelgava) — brother