Mozeshtam Sarra Yakovlevna (1894)

Mozeshtam (Mosenstamm) Sarra Yakovlevna (1894) – social activist, medical worker.

Sarra Mozenshtam participated in the organisation of the Jewish societies ‘Arbeiterheim’ in 1920 (closed in 1922) and ‘Kultur Liga’ in 1922 (existed until 1927). She worked as a seamstress. In 1940, she was appointed commissioner-authorised representative of the Jēkabpils Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia in the manufacturing trade. In 1941, she was evacuated to Gorky, where she worked as a nurse in a hospital; she completed nursing courses at the hospital and worked as a nurse. In 1945, she returned to Jēkabpils, and from 1952 she worked in a nursery.