Goldman Riva Eliasovna (1922)

Goldman (Goldmann) (née Rivkovich) Riva Eliasovna (born April 15, 1922, Ventspils) – nurse.

Riva Goldman graduated from the seven-year Jewish school in Ventspils in 1934. From 1938 to 1941, worked as a sales assistant in the “Rekord” shoe store in Riga. Evacuated in 1941 to Molotov Oblast (Russia), she worked as a laborer at the Kungur Municipal Food Combine. From 1942 to 1945, she trained at the Special Nursing School in Rostov, Yaroslavl Region (relocated to Riga in 1944). In 1945, she served as a nurse at Riga’s 4th City Polyclinic, then at the Riga City Infant Home (1945–46). From 1946 to 1947, she managed the buffet at the Riga Café and Restaurant Trust. From 1947 to 1951, she was a nurse at Riga Nursery No. 2 and the Latvian Water Sanitation Service; from 1951 to 1954, at the 1st Riga City Clinical Hospital.

In the 1960s, she also held service positions at various Riga institutions, including as a stamper at the Household Services Combine (1962) and a rental attendant at the Dinamo Stadium (1963–64). Married to David Goldman (1922, Dnipropetrovsk), with whom she had two children: Marina Goldman (1945, Riga) and Semyon Goldman (1954, Riga).

Riva’s parents and sisters perished in the Holocaust: Maria Rivkovich (1900–1941), Elias Rivkovich (1898–1941), Lina Blanekenstein (née Rivkovich, 1918–1941), and Sara Sragovich (née Rivkovich, 1920–1941). In 1956, Riva Goldman applied for permission to emigrate, which was granted in 1970.

David Goldman (1922, Dnipropetrovs'k) - husband

Marina Goldman (1945, Riga) - daughter

Semyon Goldman (1954, Riga) - son

Maria Rivkovich (1900 - 1941, Riga) - mother

Elias Rivkovich (1898 - 1941, Riga) - father

Lina Blaneknstein (Rivkovich) (1918, Smolensk - 1941, Riga) - sister

Sara Sragovich (Rivkovičs) (1920, Riga - 1941, Riga) - sister

Israel Rivkovich (1924, Ventspils) - brother

Av-Shalom Goldman (… , Tukums) - uncle of the husband