Smotkina (née Schrader) Basya (Basja) Zakharovna (4 July 1922, Ventspils) — seamstress.

In 1930 Basya’s family moved to Valdemārpils, where she completed primary school in 1938. Until 1940 she worked as an apprentice seamstress and seamstress in private workshops in Talsi. From 1940 to 1941 she was employed as a seamstress in the Ventspils military trade store (Voentorg).

From 1941 to 1945 Basya Smotkina was in evacuation in Gorky (Yaroslavl Region), where she worked as a seamstress at the Gromov Factory. In 1945 she returned to Latvia and until 1947 worked as a sales clerk in the workers’ supply department of the road administration of the 1st Latvian Railway.

From 1947 to 1959 she worked periodically in Riga hairdressing trusts. From 1959 to 1979 she was employed as a seamstress at Riga Garment Factory No. 1 (later renamed “Spartaks” and subsequently Branch No. 1 of the firm “Latvija”). From 1979 she was retired due to age.

She was awarded the medal “Veteran of Labour.”

Her parents, Zorakh Schrader (1889–1940) and Gute Schrader (née Blumenal; 1890–1940), and her sister Tsilya Schrader (1925–1940) were killed in Valdemārpils during the German occupation.

Her son Zorakh Smotkin (1947) moved to Israel in the 1980s and for some time lived and worked in the United States.

In the 1980s, Smotkina and her husband Sholom Smotkin (1922) planned to emigrate permanently to Israel to join her husband’s relatives.

Family:

Sholom Smotkin (1922) — husband
Zorakh Schrader (1889–1940) — father
Gute Schrader (née Blumenal; 1890–1940) — mother
Tsilya Schrader (1925–1940) — sister
Zorakh Smotkin (1947) — son
Gershn Smotkin (1951) — son
Gusta Goldberg (née Smotkina; 1955) — daughter
Noami Smotkina (née Lifshits; 1900) — mother-in-law

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