Diner (née Kuklya) Mera Leibovna (b. April 10, 1919, Rēzekne) – physician.

Mera Diner was born into the family of a worker, Leib Zalmanovich Kuklya (1875–1940, Rēzekne), and Khanna Ilinichna Kuklya (Trifskina)(according to other sources – Gilelevna) (b. 1883, Rēzekne – perished in 1941 in the Riga Ghetto). She graduated from secondary school in 1937 in Rēzekne and completed nurse training courses in Riga in 1941. She was evacuated to Sverdlovsk, where she worked as a nurse in an evacuation hospital from 1941 to 1943, then studied at a medical institute from 1943 to 1945. Upon returning to Riga, she completed her medical degree at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Latvia (1945–1950). She worked as a physician at Riga’s 6th Polyclinic from 1951 to 1971.

She was married to Matvey Samuilovich Diner (b. 1915, later emigrated to the USA), and they had a daughter, Yevgenia Matveyevna Herman (née Diner) (b. 1951, Riga).

In 1971, Mera Diner received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her daughter Yevgenia had already moved.

Family:

Kuklya Leib Zalmanovich (1875–1940) – father
Kuklya (Trifskina) Khanna Ilinichna (or Gilelevna) (1883–1941) – mother
Kuklya Sholom Leibovich (b. 1906, Rēzekne) – brother
Erig (née Kuklya) Gesya Leibovna (1908, Rēzekne – Mar 24, 1975, Riga) – sister
Kuklya Isai Leibovich (1910, Rēzekne – died in WWII, 1941 or 1942) – brother
Brod (née Kuklya) Leah Leibovna (b. 1912, Rēzekne) – sister
Brozgal (née Kuklya) Bashseva Leibovna (b. 1914, Rēzekne) – sister
Lifshitz (née Kuklya) Esther Leibovna (b. 1918, Rēzekne) – sister
Diner (née Kuklya) Mera Leibovna (b. 1919, Rēzekne) – sister
Kuklya Zalman Leibovich (b. 1922, Rēzekne – died in WWII, 1943) – brother
Kuklya Tevel Leibovich (b. 1925, Rēzekne) – brother (resided in the USA since 1960)
Diner Matvey Samuilovich (b. 1915) – husband (divorced in 1970)
Herman (née Diner) Yevgenia Matveyevna (b. 1951, Riga) – daughter