Vasermanis Riva Mendelevna (1906)

Vasermanis (née Godina) Riva Mendelevna (18 April 1906, Jēkabpils) – bookkeeper; known as Vaserman until 1976.

Riva Vasermanis received a secondary education, graduating from a girls’ gymnasium in 1925 and from an accountancy course in Riga in 1926. Until 1927, she worked as a cashier at Landman's shop in Jēkabpils. Between 1927 and 1940, she was a homemaker. For a year thereafter, she worked as a bookkeeper at the Jēkabpils Meat Processing Plant.

During the Second World War, she was evacuated to Tashkent, where she worked as a cashier for the Uzbek GAPS and at pharmacies No. 166 and No. 4. In 1945, she returned to Jēkabpils.

In 1948, she was manager of a Riga City Industrial Trade store. From 1949 to 1953, she was a homemaker. In 1961, she became senior sales assistant, then acting director of the Riga branch of Yuvelirtorg (Jewellery Trade), later working as a sales assistant at Kiosk No. 5 of the same organisation. From 1970 to 1972, she was a kiosk operator at Soyuzpechat (Union Press Distribution). She retired in August 1972.

In 1980, Riva Vasermanis applied for permission to emigrate to Israel for permanent residence.

On 9 September 1929, she married Berka Aronovich Vaserman. They had one daughter and two sons: Zara-Beila Berkovna Popova (née Vaserman), Mark Berkovich Vaserman (b. 9 September 1946, Jēkabpils ), an engineer at theGipronikel Institute in Leningrad, and Aizik Berkovich Vaserman.

Father: Mendel Evnovich Godin (b. 1876, Disna – d. 1941, Jēkabpils), killed by the Nazis
Mother: Sore-Beile Abramovna Godina (née Blekhman) (b. 1874, Jēkabpils – d. 1911, Jēkabpils)

Sisters:

– Sheina Mendelevna Mendelson (née Godina) (b. 1908, Jēkabpils – date unknown), emigrated to Israel from Riga in 1971

– Libe Mendelevna Kleimanis (née Godina) (b. 1910, Jēkabpils – d. 1942, Kokand, Uzbek SSR)