Smotkina (née Khazan) Khava (Chawa) Mordukhovna (Ger. Chawa Smotkina, geb. Chasan) (20 December 1928, Daugavpils) — bookkeeper.

During the years of evacuation, Khava Smotkina lived in Yadrin in the Chuvash ASSR. In 1945 she returned to Latvia, where she completed courses for accounting workers. From 1946 to 1947 she worked as a bookkeeper at the Proletarian branch of the State Bank in Riga, and from 1948 to 1950 as a bookkeeper at the factory “8 March.” From 1959 she was employed as an economist at the factory “Avtoelektropribor.” In 1960 she completed the correspondence program of the Faculty of Economics and Law of the Latvian State University.

Her brothers Zusman Khazan (1919–1942) and Rakhmiel Khazan (1921–1942) were killed at the front in 1942.

In the 1960s, Khava Smotkina and her husband Rafael Smotkin (1924) planned to move to Israel to join her husband’s relatives.

Family:

Rafael Smotkin (1924) — husband
Khaya Smotkina (1954) — daughter
Bella Smotkina (1957) — daughter
Reiza Yula (née Khazan; 1925) — sister
Khaya Khazan (1892–1952) — mother
Mordukh Khazan (1883–1960) — father
Zusman Khazan (1919–1942) — brother
Rakhmiel Khazan (1921–1942) — brother