Tsin (née Drizina) Basya (1912, Kreslavka, Vitebsk Governorate — 21.06.2006, Netanya, Israel) — veteran of the Zionist movement in Latvia, participant in the anti-fascist Resistance. She came from a religious family. In her youth she joined the Zionist youth union "Gordonia" and soon became a member of the council of this organization in Latvia. She was one of the creators of courses preparing participants for productive work in Palestine in the outskirts of Riga. On the eve of the Soviet occupation of Latvia she worked as a teacher at the Jewish school in Krāslava.
After the Hitlerite invasion of the USSR, together with her husband Berl Slavin and daughter Sarra, she was seized by the Nazis and thrown into the Daugavpils ghetto. During the first SS “action” in the ghetto in August 1941 her parents were shot, and in October of the same year her two-year-old daughter died of hunger.

In September—October 1943 she and her husband Berl Slavin took part in preparations for an armed uprising in the Daugavpils ghetto with the aim of saving the Jews still remaining there. The uprising could not be carried out, and the prisoners who tried to flee during the “concluding action” were either shot or driven to concentration camps. From October 1943 to January 1945 Ts. and her husband were prisoners in the Hitler extermination camps of Kaiserwald, Dundaga, and Stutthof. During the “death march” from Stutthof near Königsberg, Berl Slavin was killed. After this, Ts. organized the escape of several women from the column of prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp near Bydgoszcz (Poland), where she awaited the arrival of the Red Army.

After the end of the war she returned to Riga and married Moshe Tsin. In 1951 her daughter Diana was born (today — physician at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, mother of four children). In the mid-1960s Ts. appeared as a witness at several judicial proceedings against Nazi war criminals in Riga. During the Soviet perestroika years, together with L.Koval, she founded in the Latvian capital the republican Society of Former Prisoners of the Ghetto and Nazi Concentration Camps.

In June 1991 she emigrated with her family to Israel and settled in Netanya. In November 1995, with the participation of Aleksandr Riman, an employee of the Spielberg Foundation, a three-hour documentary film was made in which Ts. told the story of her life, illustrating her autobiographical account with unique photographs from her personal archive.

For many years she was a regular contributor to the Tel Aviv newspaper “Novosti Nedeli,” where she published articles on historical and topical subjects, and drew public attention to the needs of immigrants who were former prisoners of ghettos and concentration camps.

Works: To Survive in Order to Return. Tel Aviv, 1997.