Berson (Bersohn) (née Kissel-Groz) Victoria Ilyinichna (16 January 1951, Riga) – technician.

Victoria Berson was born into the family of Ilya Moiseyevich Kissel-Groz (b. 1902, Maikop, Krasnodar Krai) and Sonia Viktorovna Kissel-Groz (née Frenki, previously Lasmanis in her first marriage) (b. 1913, Moscow). She graduated from Riga Secondary School No. 10 (1958–1968), and later, while working, from the Riga Industrial Polytechnic (1975–1978).

Victoria Berson worked as a nurse-educator at Nursery-Kindergarten No. 149 (1968–1969), as an orderly at Riga United Hospital No. 5 (1970), then as a punched-card machine operator and later as an economic engineer at the Computing Centre of the Municipal Trade Administration under the City Executive Committee (1970–1979).

Victoria was first married to Grigory Zusevich Lemberg (b. 1947, Riga); the marriage was childless and dissolved in 1972.

In her second marriage to Boris Moiseyevich Berson (b. 1944, Yaroslavl), a son was born: Milail Borisovich Berson (b. 1976, Riga).

In 1979, Victoria Berson received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her father’s relative, Shlomo Samuilovich Gothilf (b. 1901, St. Petersburg), had been living since 1906.

Il’ya Moiseyevich Kissel-Groz (b. 1902) – father
Sonia Viktorovna Kissel-Groz (née Frenki, previously Lasmanis) (b. 1913) – mother
Silviya Aleksandrovna Krasil’nikova (née Lasmanis) (b. 1937) – half-sister (on the maternal side)
Shlomo Samuilovich Gothilf (b. 1901) – father’s relative
Grigory Zusevich Lemberg (b. 1947) – first husband
Boris Moiseyevich Berson (b. 1944) – second husband
Mila’il Borisovich Berson (b. 1976) – son from the second marriage