Tausenfreund (née Khaitina, Tausenfreind) Eva (Ewa) Ernestovna (4 September 1920, Tilsit District, Germany) — manicurist.

Eva Tausenfreund was born into the family of a shoemaker, Tausenfreund, and Elena Schultz (1896, Germany).

In 1934 she completed seven grades of secondary school in Königsberg. From 1934 to 1935 she studied at courses in applied arts.

From 1935 to 1939 she worked as a saleswoman in a private dry-goods shop in Königsberg.

From 1939 to 1944 she worked as a seamstress in the workshop of Weidendom in Königsberg.

In 1944–1945 she worked as a home-based seamstress in Kaliningrad.

In 1945–1946 she was a saleswoman in Wolf’s commission shop.

In the 1940s she married Abram Khaitin (1912, Riga) and moved to Latvia.

From 1947 to 1949 she worked as a seamstress in the Republican Society “Dynamo” in Riga.

In 1949–1950 she was a painter in the artel “Remont.”

In 1950–1951 she worked as a painter in the artel “Daiļkrāsotājs” in Riga.

In 1951–1952 she was a stencil artist in the art workshop of the Riga Theatre Society.

From 1956 she worked as a manicurist in the hairdressing office of the municipal services trust of Riga and Jūrmala.

In 1948–1949 she was a member of the USSR Trade Union of Garment Industry Workers. From 1951 she was a member of the Trade Union of Art Workers.

In the 1950s Eva Tausenfreund petitioned for Soviet citizenship, but the request was denied.

Her first marriage ended in 1956, as her husband was serving a long prison sentence.

That same year she entered a second marriage with Evgeny Izakson (1919, Liepāja).

From 1956 onward Eva Tausenfreund repeatedly applied for permission to emigrate permanently to the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1957 she personally appealed to Kliment Voroshilov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, asking for expedited consideration of her emigration request.

In 1961 she received permission to leave for West Germany.

Family:

Abram Khaitin (1912, Riga) — first husband
Evgeny Izakson (1919, Liepāja) — second husband
Elena Schultz (1896, Germany) — mother