Tabak Boris Yankelevich (24 February 1906, Kishinev) — hatter.

In 1924–1940, Boris Tabak worked as an apprentice hatter and hatter in private workshops in Kishinev. In 1940–1941, he was a hatter in the Kishinev artel “Kooperator.”

In 1941–1942, he served in the active Soviet Army. In 1942, he was demobilized due to a wound. In 1942–1946, he worked in an invalids’ artel in Tashkent.

In 1946–1956, he worked as a hatter in the artel “Kooperator” in Lviv. In 1950–1953, he worked as a cloakroom attendant in the artel “Apsardze” in Riga. In 1953–1954, he worked from home in the artel “Izpaligs.” In 1954–1963, he was a hatter at the 1st Riga Garment Factory.

In 1963, he was prosecuted under Article 148, part 1, for participation in private entrepreneurial activity and served his sentence in a corrective labor colony in Valmiera until 1965.

From his first marriage to Leya Mayevskaya, he had a son, Moisha Tabak (1936, Kishinev), who lived with him. In 1942, he registered a second marriage with Brana Tabak (née Godysh, Zoller) (1919, Orhei).

In the family of his parents, Yankel Tabak (…, Kishinev — 1939, Kishinev) and Rukhil Tabak (…, Kishinev — 1940, Kishinev), there were seven children. In the 1960s, his sister Khaya Landman (née Tabak) (1923, Kishinev) and his brother Pinya Tabak (1925, Kishinev) lived and worked in Kishinev.

His brothers Moishe Tabak (1918, Kishinev — …) and Shmil Tabak (1921, Kishinev — …) went missing during the Second World War. His sisters Tsilya Levit (née Tabak) (1911, Kishinev) and Dvoire Shilkrut (née Tabak) (1907, Kishinev) emigrated with their families to the territory of the present-day State of Israel in the 1930s.

In 1956, Boris Tabak applied for permission to emigrate to Israel, which was granted only in 1963.

Family:

Brana Tabak (née Godysh, Zoller) (1919, Orhei) — second wife
Leya Mayevskaya — first wife
Moisha Tabak (1936, Kishinev) — son
Khaya Landman (née Tabak) (1923, Kishinev) — sister
Pinya Tabak (1925, Kishinev) — brother
Tsilya Levit (née Tabak) (1911, Kishinev) — sister
Dvoire Shilkrut (née Tabak) (1907, Kishinev) — sister
Moishe Tabak (1918, Kishinev — …) — brother
Shmil Tabak (1921, Kishinev — …) — brother
Yankel Tabak (…, Kishinev — 1939, Kishinev) — father
Rukhil Tabak (…, Kishinev — 1940, Kishinev) — mother