Vesterman Khaya Yosselevna (1930)

Vesterman ( Westermann) (née Hirshovich) Khaya (Chaya) Yosselevna (February 3, 1930, Paris, France) – nurse.

Khaya Vesterman was born in Paris, where her parents — chemical engineer Yossel (Iosel, Iosif-Yosel) Hirshovich (1901, Tartu – 1953, Tartu) and Mere-Khane (Meri-Khana) Hirshovich (née Mandelkorn) (1899, Jelgava) — had arrived in 1929 on a tourist visa.

Shortly after her birth, the family returned to Tartu, her father's hometown.

In 1941, Khaya and her parents were evacuated to Samarkand and returned to Estonia in 1945.

She graduated from Secondary School No. 2 in Tartu in 1952 and, in 1957, completed her studies at the Tartu Republican Medical College, qualifying as a feldsher-midwife.

She married Aron Vesterman (1918, Gorky), a native of Riga, and moved to Latvia. Their son Lev Vesterman (1958, Liepāja) was born in the marriage.

From 1959 to 1961, Khaya Vesterman worked as a nurse at the city polyclinic in Liepāja.

In 1962, she served as a midwife at Riga’s 3rd City Hospital, and from 1962 to 1976, she worked as a nurse at Riga’s 1st Children’s Polyclinic.

Aron Vesterman (Vestermanis) (1918, Gorky) – husband
Yossel (Iosel, Iosif-Yosel) Hirshovich (1901, Tartu – 1953, Tartu) – father
Mere-Khane (Meri-Khana) Hirshovich (née Mandelkorn) (1899, Jelgava) – mother
Zviyah-Karmella Kaplun (née Hirshovich) (1937, Tartu) – sister
Lev Westerman (1958, Liepāja) – son
Ida Teitelbaum (née Westerman) (1946, Liepāja) – daughter of her husband from a previous marriage