Goldberger (née Sher) Elka Silimovna (born 7 April 1915, Viļāni) — labourer.

Elka Goldberger was born into the family of Silimon Sher (1870, Viļāni – 1932), a small-scale iron trader, and Fruma Sher (c.1880, Poland – 1942, Viļāni). She graduated from a gymnasium in Rēzekne in 1934. From 1934 to 1937, she held various temporary jobs in Rēzekne. Between 1937 and 1940, she worked as a shop assistant at the Geginger store in Abrene, and in 1940–1941 as a statistician at the industrial complex of the Abrene District.

In 1941, she was evacuated to Shafrikana District in the Uzbek SSR, where she worked on the Yusupov kolkhoz until 1943. From 1943 to 1944, she served as a ward matron at the district hospital in Shafrikana. From 1945 to 1946, she was a worker at the interdistrict office of “Uzmasloprom.”

In 1946, she returned to Riga, where she remained a homemaker until 1962. From 1962 to 1965, she worked in the security department of Riga’s Oktyabrsky District. From 1965, she returned to homemaking.

Elka was married toSemyon Goldberger (born 1913, Újpest, Hungary), with whom she had three children:

– Ida Goldberger (born 1946, Bukhara Region)

– Gavriel Goldberger (born 1947, Riga)

– Silim Goldberger (born 1947, Riga)

Her sister Fanya Khayut (née Sher) (b. c.1905, Rēzekne) emigrated from Latvia in 1936 and was living in Israel by the 1960s.

During the Holocaust, her mother Fruma Sher (c.1880 – 1942) was murdered in Viļāni. Also shot in Viļāni in 1942 were her siblings Bluma Sher (b. 1920), Taube Sher (later Vāpne) (b. 1908), and Yaakov Sher (b. 1922). Her brother Isai Sher (b. 1910) died on the front near Pskov around 1942.

Her siblings Sofia Sher (b. 1919, Daugavpils) and Tevel Sher (b. 1906, Viļāni) were still living in Latvia in the 1960s, although Tevel later emigrated.

In 1968, Elka Goldberger received permission to emigrate to the United States.

Family:

Semyon Goldberger (born 1913, Újpest, Hungary) — husband
Ida Goldberger (born 1946, Bukhara Region) — daughter
Gavriel Goldberger (born 1947, Riga) — son
Silim Goldberger (born 1947, Riga) — son
Silimon Sher (1870, Viļāni – 1932) — father
Fruma Sher (c.1880, Poland – 1942, Viļāni) — mother
Fanya Khayut (née Sher) (b. c.1905, Rēzekne) — sister
Tevel Sher (born 1906, Viļāni) — brother
Taube (Tuibe) Vāpne (née Sher) (1908, Viļāni – 1942, Līvāni) — sister
Isai Sher (1910, Viļāni – c.1942) — brother
Sofia Sher (born 1919, Daugavpils) — sister
Bluma Sher (1920, Viļāni – 1942, Viļāni) — sister
Yaakov Sher (1922, Viļāni – 1942, Viļāni) — brother