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Matison Dveire Salamonovna (1910)

Personal data
SurnameMatison
NameDveire
PatronymSalamonovna
Birth year1910
Birth month12
Birth day8
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Matison (Matisohn) (née Yankovich; Apt in her first marriage) Dveire (Dweire) Salamonovna (8 December 1910, Riga) - seamstress.

From 1924 to 1940 Dveire Matison worked as a seamstress in private workshops, including the Shneiderman workshop in Riga. From 1941 to 1945 she worked as a seamstress in a consumer services workshop at Silva station in Perm Oblast. From 1946 she was a homemaker. Between 1946 and 1974 she lived in Salaspils, Bender, and Jurmala.

Her mother, Khaya-Reize Yankovich (née Becker) (1876–1941), and her sister, Sheva Aronstam (née Yankovich) (1904–1941), were murdered in the Riga Ghetto. Her brother Borukh Yankovich (1908–1940) was killed at the front, and her brother Abram Yankovich (1900–1940) was listed as missing in action.

Her first husband, Meilekh Apt (1913–1940), a native of Polotsk, died in a hospital in besieged Leningrad after being wounded at the front. In 1946 she registered a marriage with Meyer Matison (1907).

Dveire Matison left Latvia in 1974.

Family:

Meyer Matison (1907) — second husband
Sara Adler (née Matison; Lerner) (1946) — daughter from the second marriage
Mikhel Apt (1938) — son from the first marriage
Salamon Yankovich (1874–1929) — father
Khaya-Reize Yankovich (née Becker) (1876–1941) — mother
Abram Yankovich (1900–1940) — brother
Sheva Aronstam (née Yankovich) (1904–1941) — sister
Itsik Yankovich (1906) — brother
Borukh Yankovich (1908–1940) — brother
Meilekh Apt (1913–1940) — first husband