Simson Mira Leybovna (1946)

Simson Mira Leybovna (née Weinstein) (3 June 1946, Riga) — economist.

Mira Simson was born into the family of Leib Meerovich Weinstein (1913), a shoemaker, and Sara Elyakinovna Weinstein (née Yankovich; first marriage Gavartina; 1913), a housewife.

She graduated from Riga Secondary School No. 15 in 1964, and in 1965 worked as a seamstress at the firm “Latvija.” In 1968, she graduated from the Latvian Agricultural Academy in Jelgava.

From 1968 to 1969, she worked as an economist at the Tiraini Agricultural Experimental Station, and from 1969 to 1972 as an economist in the Department of Public Education of the Moscow District Executive Committee (RIK) in Riga.

She was married to Kasriel Simonovich Simson (1939, Riga); the marriage ended in divorce in 1970. Their daughter is Simona Kasrielovna Simson (1967, Riga).

In 1972, Mira Simson received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her uncle, David Meerovich Weinstein (brother of her father), had lived since 1929.

Family:

Leib Meerovich Weinstein (1913) — father
Sara Elyakinovna Weinstein (née Yankovich; first marriage Gavartina; 1913) — mother
Meer Leibovich Weinstein (1949, Riga) — brother
Kasriel Simonovich Simson (1939, Riga) — husband (divorced)
Simona Kasrielovna Simson (1967, Riga) — daughter
David Meerovich Weinstein (1911) — uncle