Shkolnik Yakov Lvovich (18.10.1907, Preiļi) – office worker. In 1921 he completed 6 grades of basic school in Pļaviņas. In 1921–24 he was an apprentice and later a salesman at the “Springenfeld and Firk” store in Riga. In 1924–25 he worked as a salesman at Kahn's store, in 1925–27 at the Rafilovich firm, in 1927–30 at the Friedman firm, in 1930–31 at the Glikman firm, and in 1931–34 as a salesman at the “Osiris” firm. In 1935–41 he worked as a traveling salesman for the “Maraudums” textile factory. In 1931 he underwent treatment in Vienna. With the outbreak of the war he was evacuated with his family to Tashkent, where from September 1941 to January 1943 he was deputy head of the children's evacuation point under the People's Commissariat of Education in Tashkent. In 1943–45 he worked as head of material and household services for the People's Commissariat of Education of the Uzbek SSR. In 1945 he returned with his family to Riga and from April 1945 to May 1947 was deputy manager of the “Gortop” trust. In 1947–52 and 1953–56 he worked as director of Store No. 4. From June to September 1953 he worked as head of the “Sagadatais” artel, in 1956–63 as head of the “Asociatsiya” factory workshop, then of the furniture and apartment repair plant. He left work due to illness and was a category II disabled person. In 1965 he left for Israel. He holds the medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.”
First wife – Shkolnik (née Martinson) Valentina Zhanovna (1910, Riga – 1941, Riga) – shot by the Germans. The marriage was dissolved in 1932.
In 1933 he married Shkolnik (née Valovich) Debora Shliomovna.
Two sons were born of the marriage:
Shkolnik Ilya Yakovlevich,
Shkolnik Ruvim Yakovlevich (1935, Riga – (?)) – worked as a technician in the laboratory of the Experimental Research Institute of Railcar Building.
Father – Shkolnik Lev Feyvush Movshovich (1869, Preiļi – 1941, Madona).
Mother – Shkolnik (née Melomed) Riva Lvovna (1875, Dinaburg (Daugavpils) – 1916, Nevel, Pskov Region).
Brothers:
Shkolnik Semyon Lvovich (1900 (1901?), Preiļi – 1941, Riga),
Shkolnik Solomon Lvovich (1902, Preiļi – 1941, Pļaviņas),
Shkolnik Rakhmiel Lvovich (1903, Preiļi – 1941, Pļaviņas),
Shkolnik Khatskel Lvovich (1906, Preiļi – 1941, Madona).
Sisters:
Giladi (née Shkolnik) Gita Lvovna (1910, Pļaviņas – (?)) – lived in Israel from 1936 and worked as a physician,
Goldblat (née Shkolnik) Khava Lvovna (1913, Pļaviņas – (?)) – agronomist, lived in Israel from 1931.
Her father and four brothers were shot by the Germans.