Aronstam (Stelmakh, previously Shnaidman by first marriage) Raisa Aronovna (born 26 February 1946, Vinnytsia)

Raisa Aronovna Aronstam (née Stelmakh, previously Shnaidman) was born into the family of Aron Volkovich Stelmakh (born 1905, Turbov District, Vinnytsia Region) and Enya Yudkovna Stelmakh (née Ketser) (born 1911, Medzhybizh, Khmelnytskyi Region).

In 1964, she graduated from Riga Secondary School No. 9, and in 1972, from the Riga Technical School of Light Industry as a planning technician. She worked as an apprentice locksmith at the VEF plant (1964, Riga), an accountant at the RigaPromStroy trust (1965–1966), a controller at the company Rīgas Apģērbs (1966–1968), an accountant at the Mara industrial association (1968–1970), an accountant at the Voenna Kniga bookstore (1970–1973), and, from 1973, as an instructor in the department of accounting, reporting, and financial control at the Latvian Republican Council for the Management of Trade Union Resorts.

In her first marriage to Lazar Borukhovich Shnaidman (born 1938, Polesia Region), their daughter, Marina Lazarevna Shnaidman (born 1967, Riga), was born.

In her second marriage to Gennady Khaimovich Aronstam (born 1941, Tyumen), their daughter, Ilona Gennadievna Aronstam (born 1972, Riga), was born.

In 1979, she was granted permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1975, her second husband's aunt (his mother's cousin), Sara Mikhailovna Barkan (née Dagovich) (born 1910, Liepāja), had been residing.

Family members:

  • [[en:people:stelmakh_aron|Aron Volkovich Stelmakh]] (born 1905, Turbov District, Vinnytsia Region) – father

  • [[en:people:stelmakh_enya|Enya Yudkovna Stelmakh]] (née Ketser) (born 1911, Medzhybizh, Khmelnytskyi Region) – mother

  • Tatyana Aronovna Shoikhet (née Stelmakh) (born 1933, Vinnytsia) – sister

  • [[en:people:finkman_galina|Galina Aronovna Finkman]] (née Stelmakh) (born 1937, Vinnytsia) – sister

  • Lazar Borukhovich Shnaidman (born 1938, Polesia Region) – first husband

  • Marina Lazarevna Shnaidman (born 1967, Riga) – daughter

  • [[en:people:aronstam_gennady|Gennady Khaimovich Aronstam]] (born 1941) – second husband

  • Ilona Gennadievna Aronstam (born 1972) – daughter

  • Sara Mikhailovna Barkan (née Dagovich) (born 1910, Liepāja) – aunt of her second husband