Aronstam (Meyerson) Masha Nokhumovna (born 25 January 1940, Riga)

Masha Nokhumovna Aronstam (née Meyerson) was born into a family of employees. Her parents were Nokhum Moiseevich Meyerson (born 1896, Jelgava – died 1953, Riga) and Hana Yudovna Meyerson (née Henina) (1901–1960, Riga).

From 1941 to 1944, she was evacuated to Penza. In 1963, she graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Riga Medical Institute. She worked as a doctor in the “Bulduri” sanatorium (1964), as a trainee doctor at the 1st Riga Children's Polyclinic (1964–1968), as a paediatrician at the Riga Emergency Medical Service (1968–1974), and as a doctor in the polyclinic department of the Riga Dermatology and Venereology Dispensary (from 1974).

In her marriage to Shalom Khaimovich Aronstam (born 1939, Liepāja), their son,

Natan Shalomovich Aronstam (born 1964, Riga), was born.

In 1979, she was granted permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1975, her husband’s maternal cousin, Sara Mikhailovna Barkan (née Dagovich) (born 1910, Liepāja), had been residing. Sara was the cousin of her husband's maternal relative,

Eti Naftilovna Aronstam (née Lipman) (born 1911, Subate).

Family members:

  • [[en:people:aronstam_shalom|Shalom Khaimovich Aronstam]] (born 1939, Liepāja) – husband

  • Natan Shalomovich Aronstam (born 1964, Riga) – son

  • Nokhum Moiseevich Meyerson (1896, Jelgava – 1953, Riga) – father

  • Hana Yudovna Meyerson (née Henina) (1901–1960, Riga) – mother

  • Abram Nokhumovich Meyerson (1930, Riga – 1942, Penza) – brother

  • Sara Mikhailovna Barkan (née Dagovich) (born 1910, Liepāja) – maternal cousin of her husband's relative

  • Eti Naftilovna Aronstam (née Lipman) (born 1911, Subate) – husband's maternal cousin