Hamburg Tsyva Samuilovna (1929)

Hamburg (née Kestenberg) Tsyva (Tziwa) Samuilovna (b. 11 March 1929, Tukums) – labourer.

In 1941, Tsyva Hamburg was evacuated to the Kalinin kolkhoz in the Tyurakurgan District, Namangan Region, Uzbek SSR. After training at Vocational School No. 5, first in Tashkent (1944) and then in Riga (1945), she worked from 1945 to 1950 as a coil winder at the VEF factory. Between 1950 and 1953, she was employed at the “Adasgalantereya” artel, and from 1958 to 1961 she worked as a packer at the “Fantazija” factory.

Since 1953, she was married to Zalman Leibovich Hamburg . They had two daughters: Sheina Zalmanovna Hamburg (b. 1954, Riga) and Faina Zalmanovna Hamburg (b. 1960, Riga).

Family:

Father: Samuil Abramovich Kestenberg (b. 1895, Radom, Poland – d. 1942, Kalinin kolkhoz, Tyurakurgan District, Namangan Region, Uzbek SSR)

Mother: Rebeka Abramovna Kestenberg– emigrated to Israel in 1962

Brothers:

Abram Samuilovich Kestenberg

Izak Samuilovich Kestenberg (b. 1922, Tukums)

Sisters:

Dina Samuilovna Gligsberg(b. 1924, Tukums) – repatriated to Poland in 1957, later emigrated to Israel (Holon)

Tsilya Samuilovna Shtern (b. 1927, Tukums) – repatriated to Poland in 1957, then emigrated to Australia (Melbourne)

Raya Samuilovna Kestenberg (b. 1930/31?, Tukums) – emigrated to Israel in 1962 (Holon)
Roza Samuilovna Kestenberg (b. 1933, Tukums) – emigrated to Israel in 1962 (Holon)
Ita Samuilovna Kestenberg (b. 1936, Tukums) – emigrated to Israel in 1962 (Holon)