Ratz (née Solovey) Rakhel (Rachel) Khaimovna (born 5 April 1922, Balvi) — seamstress.

After completing six classes of a Jewish school in Balvi, Rakhel Ratz studied tailoring from 1936 to 1940 in Balvi. From 1940 to 1941 she worked as a seamstress at the “Padomju Latvija” garment factory in Riga.

From 1941 to 1942 she was evacuated and worked as a labourer in the collective farm “Narat Kigu” in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. From 1942 to 1945 she performed various casual jobs in Samarkand.

From 1946 to 1955 she worked as a home-based seamstress in the “Veka” artel (Riga), from 1955 to 1961 as a seamstress at a haberdashery factory, and from 1961 to 1966 as a sewing machine operator seamstress at Latlegsnabsbyt.

In 1946 she married Ilya Mikhailovich Rats (2 January 1915, Višķi – 1977, Riga).

Their sons are:Lev Ilyich Rats (born 15 December 1946, Riga) and Mikhail Ilyich Rats (born 1951)

Family:

Ilya Mikhailovich Ratz (2 January 1915, Višķi – 1977, Riga) - husband

Lev Ilyich Rats (born 15 December 1946, Riga) - son

Mikhail Ilyich Rats (born 1951) - son

Khaim Meerovich Solovey (1882, Balvi – 1936, Balvi) - father
Zisla Meyshevna Solovey (1884, Balvi – 1939, Balvi) - mother
Khaya Khaimovna Smolyak (née Solovey) (1909, Balvi – unknown) - sister
Merka Khaimovna Livshits (née Solovey) (1914, Balvi – unknown) - sister

Yankel Khaimovich Solovey (killed in the Holocaust in 1941, Balvi) - brother

Meyshe Khaimovich Solovey - brother

Zelik Khaimovich Solovey - brother