Rapoport (née Everovich) Eta Isayevna (4 August 1921, Butrimonys, Alytus District, Lithuanian SSR) — nursemaid.

Eta Rapoport was born into a peasant family. In 1927 her father, Rosen (Everovich) Sam (1899), left his wife Khaya Skarulskaya (1902–1929) with three children (the names of R.’s brother and sister are unknown) and moved to America to join his brother. There Sam remarried a U.S. citizen, Beta Rosen (three children were born in this marriage).

After her mother’s death in 1929, Eta, together with her sister and brother, lived with relatives on both her father’s and mother’s sides in Butrimonys and Kaunas. In June 1941 the siblings planned to flee inland. On the way Eta Rapoport was struck by a horse and crippled, and together with her brother she decided to return to Kaunas. Her sister managed to escape. Two hours after the Germans occupied Kaunas, Eta’s brother was denounced to the occupiers as a Komsomol member and shot. R. managed to hide; however, a few days later, together with the other Jews of Kaunas, she was confined in the local ghetto. Fearing persecution because of her relation to a Komsomol member, Eta concealed her real surname and was registered as Levina. Until 1943 she remained in the ghetto in Lithuania. In 1943 Eta Rapoport was deported to the Stutthof concentration camp in Germany. On 10 March 1945 the Germans planned to kill prisoners ill with typhus, but thanks to the arrival of Red Army troops Eta survived.

At the end of 1945 she returned to Kaunas and found none of her relatives alive. In 1947 she summoned her sister from evacuation in Sverdlovsk. In 1947 Eta Rapoport met Rimmer, who presented himself as a Polish citizen and suggested that she move to his homeland in order later to emigrate to the United States to join her father. In Grodno Eta was arrested for illegally crossing the border and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. In 1952 she was released from custody, and in 1953 she married Abram Rapoport (b. 1923). The marriage was dissolved in 1960.

Family:

Rosen (Everovich) Sam (1899) — father
Khaya Skarulskaya (1902–1929) — mother
Beta Rosen (date of birth unknown) — stepmother
Abram Rapoport (1923) — husband