Rips (née Bernstein) Sabina Benediktovna (12 May 1927, Riga) — pediatrician.

Sabina Rips was the daughter of Bendet Bernstein (1883, Riga — 1968, Riga) and Ganna Itskina (1887, Riga — 1952, Riga).

In 1941 she completed five grades of Riga Incomplete Secondary School No. 9. In the same year she was evacuated to the Jambul region of the Kazakh SSR, where she continued her studies in the settlement of Karatau. In 1945 she returned to Riga. In 1947 she graduated from Riga Secondary School No. 17.

In 1953 she graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Riga Medical Institute. From 1953 to 1962 and again from 1969 to 1980 she worked as a pediatrician at the Republican Children’s Clinical Hospital. From 1962 to 1969 she was a physician-instructor at Riga Medical School No. 2, and until 1975 she combined teaching with hospital work.

She married Boris Davydovich Rips (1925, Riga). Their children were: Ilya Borisovich Rips (1953, Riga) and Olga Borisovna Bakhmutskaya (née Rips) (1957, Riga).

Her brother Joseph Bernstein (1919, Moscow — 1941) was killed in action during the Second World War. Her brother Aron Bernstein (1911, Riga) left Latvia in 1933 and by the 1980s lived in Paris. Another brother, Yakov Bernstein (1916, Riga), lived in Riga in the 1980s.

In 1980 Sabina Rips received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her husband’s brother Isaak Rips (b. 1921, Irkutsk), who had emigrated from the USSR in 1970.

Family:

Boris Davydovich Rips (1925, Riga) — husband
Ilya Borisovich Rips (1953, Riga) — son
Olga Borisovna Bakhmutskaya (née Rips) (1957, Riga) — daughter
Bendet Bernstein (1883, Riga — 1968, Riga) — father
Ganna Itskina (1887, Riga — 1952, Riga) — mother
Aron Bernstein (1911, Riga) — brother
Yakov Bernstein (1916, Riga) — brother
Joseph Bernstein (1919, Moscow — 1941) — brother
Isaak Rips (1921, Irkutsk) — husband’s brother