Garber (née Blum) Miryam Yakovlevna (b. 26 December 1925, Munich) – homemaker.
Miryam Garber was the daughter of Yakov Blum (b. 1898, Poland – d. 1933, Munich) and Lina Blum (née Osmiyanskaya, b. 1904, Liepaja).
Until 1933, she lived in Munich with her parents. After the death of her father, she moved with her mother to Riga. In 1947, she worked as a trainee at the VEF Factory. From 1947 to 1948, she was a secretary-typist at the Ministry of Municipal Services of the Latvian SSR. From 1948 onwards, she was a homemaker.
Between 195—1962, she studied German through the State Central Correspondence Courses for Foreign Languages. In 1958, she completed secondary school in Riga.
She was married to David Garber (b. 1921, Riga). They had two daughters: Nekhama Garber (b. 1950, Riga) and Yael Garber (b. 1968, Riga).
In 1968, Miryam Garber received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her half-sister, Alisa Shapiro (née Blum, b. 1922, Munich), who had left Germany for Palestine in 1933.
Family:
David Solomonovich Garber (b. 1921, Riga) – husband
Nekhama Davidovna Garber (b. 1950, Riga) – daughter
Yael Davidovna Garber (b. 1968, Riga) – daughter
Yakov Blum (1898, Poland – 1933, Munich) – father
Lina Yakovlevna Blum (née Osmiyanskaya, b. 1904, Liepaja) – mother
Alisa Shapiro (née Blum, b. 1922, Munich) – half-sister
Ruth Blum (b. 1930, Munich – d. 1942, Tashkent) – sister