Kamergorodskaya (née Martinson) Tzviya (Tzvia) Sholemovna (24 March 1931, Liepāja) — teacher.

Tzviya Kamergorodskaya was the daughter of Nekha Vasserman-Martinson (1898, Jēkabpils – 1975, Riga) and Sholem Martinson (1896, Jelgava – 1961, Riga). From 1938 to 1941 she attended primary school in Liepāja. In 1941, together with her parents, she was deported to Krasnoyarsk Krai: her mother ran a shop, while her father, formerly a bank employee, later worked in his wife’s store.

From 1941 to 1947 she attended secondary school in the village of Rozhdestvenskoye, Kazachinsky District. In 1947 she returned to Latvia with her mother. In 1950 she graduated from the 10th class of Riga Secondary School No. 10. That same year, together with her brother, Tobias Martinson (1932, Liepāja), she was again deported to a special settlement in Krasnoyarsk Krai.

In 1953 she graduated from Yeniseisk Teachers’ Institute. From 1953 to 1957 she taught mathematics at Vorokovskaya and Momotovskaya secondary schools in Kazachinsky District. In 1957 she once again moved back to Latvia. From 1957 to 1978 she worked as a teacher for long-term ill children at the Department of Public Education (RONO) of Riga’s Kirov District. From 1978 she was a homemaker.

Married to Viktor Kamergorodsky (1924, Odessa). Their children: Mikhail Kamergorodsky (1960, Riga) and Stella Kamergorodskaya (1963, Riga).

In 1979 Tzviya Kamergorodskaya received permission to emigrate to Israel, invited by her mother’s cousin, Esther Portnaya (née Slivkina) (1931, Daugavpils).

Family:

Viktor Kamergorodsky (1924, Odessa) - husband

Mikhail Kamergorodsky (1960, Riga) - son

Stella Kamergorodskaya (1963, Riga) - daughter

Nekha Vasserman-Martinson (1898, Jēkabpils – 1975, Riga) - mother
Sholem Martinson (1896, Jelgava – 1961, Riga) - father

Tobias Martinson (1932, Liepāja) - brother

Esther Portnaya (née Slivkina) (1931, Daugavpils) - mother’s cousin