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Goldberg Meria Mordkovna (1926)

Personal data
SurnameGoldberg
NameMeria
PatronymMordkovna
Birth year1926
Birth placeUman
SexF

Goldberg (née Mogilevskaya) Meria (Meri) Mordkovna (or Markovna?) (born 1926, Uman) — office worker.

Meria Goldberg completed nine years of secondary school. From 1944 to 1945, she worked as an attendant at the Historical Museum in Kharkiv. In 1946, she served as a customs inspector at the Brest Customs Office, and from 1946 to 1949, she was an instructor-auditor for the Brest District Consumer Co-operative. Until 1952, she worked as an inspector for the Inter-District Trade Office in Brest.

In 1953, she moved to Riga, where she worked as a goods manager and, from 1953 to 1955, as an accountant at Construction and Installation Trust No. 1.

In 1959, Meria Goldberg emigrated to Poland, and from 1962, she lived in the United States, working as a manicurist in a hair salon in Los Angeles. She was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).

On 17 July 1949, she married Kadish Tsalkovich Goldberg. They had two children:

– Felix Kadishevich Goldberg (born 1950)
– Yuliya Kadishevna Goldberg (born 1954)

Father: Mark Isaakovich Mogilevsky

Brothers:

– Arnold Markovich Mogilevsky (born 1934, Kyiv) — navigator at the Riga Sea Port

– Ernest Markovich Mogilevsky (born 1937, Uman) — career military officer, major, resident of Komsomolsk-on-Amur