Feiga Tevelev, née Bichowsky was born in Krustpils, Gouv. Riga/ Latvia on August 26, 1900 as the daughter of the Riga merchant David Bichowsky. She married Yosef Abkin. On March 13, 1919, their son Abraham was born. When Feiga moved from Riga to Bad Kissingen in March 1923, she was already widowed. She worked as a household help in the spa town but returned to Riga in September 1924.

Her father David Bichowsky is to be found in the Kissingen Registry of 1926 as the owner of the house in Bismarckstrasse 7. Back home in Riga, Feiga married a second time. In her marriage with Isaac Tevelev (1892-1960) she had a daughter Berenika (Reni) Tevelev, born in Riga in 1926. Feiga Abkin/ Tevelev emigrated to Palestine with her second husband and their two children and died there in 1979.

Her father David, who had married a second time, became a victim of Nazi annihilation policy together with his wife and their 9-year-old son Usiel after the occupation of Latvia by German troops in Summer 1941.