Ginzburg (Ginsburg) Syoma (Sema) Mikhailovich (b. 6 July 1954, Jēkabpils, Latvia) – labourer.

Syoma Ginzburg was born into the family of a worker, Mikhail Semyonovich Ginzburg (b. 1928, Jēkabpils), and a retail employee, Tamara Khaimovna Ginzburg (née Gelbart, b. 1932, Jēkabpils).

He graduated from Jēkabpils Secondary School No. 4 in 1971 and studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute from 1971 to 1973. Worked as an electrician with the construction team of the Jēkabpils District Consumer Co-operative (Raipo) from 1973 to 1974. From 1974 to 1977, served a sentence imposed by the military tribunal of the Baltic Military District under Article 121, Part 3 of the Latvian SSR Criminal Code.

Following his release, he returned to work as an electrician and acting foreman in the same construction team (1977–1978). After relocating to Riga, he worked as a carpenter and foreman in the maintenance and construction unit of the Latvian State University (1978–1982), then as a painter with the repair and construction department of the Latvian Council of Resorts (1982–1983), and on a collective farm “Draudzība” in Jelgava District (1983–1984). From 1984 to 1986, he was employed as a bricklayer at SU-427 of the Baltmorgidrostroy Trust in Ventspils, and from 1987 to 1988 worked as a painter in the repair department of the RAF factory.

Married to Raya Borisovna Ginzburg (née Vayner, b. 1956, Riga), with whom he had a daughter, Sabina Semyonovna Ginzburg (b. 1978, Riga).

In 1988, Syoma Ginzburg received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his wife’s aunt Lyubov Isakovna Gamarnik (née Hertzbach, b. 1929, Jelgava) had been living since 1980.

Family:

– Father: Mikhail Semyonovich Ginzburg (b. 1928)

– Mother: Tamara Khaimovna Ginzburg (née Gelbart, b. 1932)

– Sister: Sofiya Mikhailovna Khemiy (née Ginzburg, b. 1960, Jēkabpils)

– Wife: Raya Borisovna Ginzburg (née Vayner, b. 1956)

– Daughter: Sabina Semyonovna Ginzburg (b. 1978)

– Wife’s aunt: Lyubov Isakovna Gamarnik (née Hertzbach, b. 1929)