Matison (Matisohn) Meyer Nakhimovich (12 May 1907, Salaspils) - butcher.

In 1925 Meyer Matison completed the 6th grade of secondary school in Riga. Until 1940 he worked as a butcher and livestock slaughterer in the Salaspils district. From 1940 to 1941 he was employed as a livestock receiver at ZagotSkot in Riga. Between 1941 and 1944 he served in the Soviet Army with the 43rd Guards Division, holding the rank of starshina. He fought near Moscow and Naro-Fominsk. After being wounded in 1944, he was demobilised due to disability.

From 1945 to 1946 he worked as a forwarding agent in the Salaspils Consumer Cooperative. Between 1947 and 1950 he was a procurement agent in the Riga district. From 1950 to 1962 he worked as a livestock procurement officer in the Riga district. In 1962–1963 he served as a shop manager in Bendery. From 1965 to 1971 he was a procurement officer for the Olaine rural consumer cooperative of the Riga district. In the early 1970s, a criminal case was opened against him under Article 88, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Latvian SSR for irregularities in his work (acceptance of live livestock without weighing and acceptance of carcasses without veterinary inspection stamps); the case was subsequently closed by the Riga District Police Department under an amnesty.

Of his seven brothers and sisters, only three survived the war. His brother Shanse Matison (1903–1927) died tragically in Riga in 1927, and his brother Yakov Matison (1899–1921) was killed in 1921. His brother Kalman Matison (1912–1941) and sister Eta Matison (1911–1941) were murdered in the Riga Ghetto. The German occupation claimed the lives of his father, Nakhim Matison (1880–1940), and of his first family: his wife Sasha Matison (née Abramson) (1906–1940ies), his daughter Anna Matison (1940 - 1940ies), and his son Yasha Matison (1935–1940ies). His sister Tova Blumentova (née Matison) (1914) left for seasonal work in what is now the State of Israel in the 1930s and was living there in the 1970s. His sister Roza Vinakur (née Matison) (1902) was also living in Israel in the 1970s.

In 1946 he married for a second time, to Dveire Yankovich Matison (1910). Their marriage produced a daughter, Sara Adler (née Matison; Lerner) (1946). His stepson was Mikhel Apt (1938), the son of his second wife from her first marriage.

Meyer Matison left Latvia in 1974.

Family:

Dveire Yankovich Matison (1910) — second wife
Sara Adler (née Matison; Lerner) (1946) — daughter
Mikhel Apt (1938) — stepson
Nakhim Matison (1880–1940) — father
Zara Matison (1878–1939) — mother
Yakov Matison (1899–1921) — brother
Shanse Matison (1903–1927) — brother
Kalman Matison (1912–1941) — brother
Eta Matison (1911–1941) — sister
Roza Vinakur (née Matison) (1902) — sister
Tova Blumentova (née Matison) (1914) — sister
Itsik Matison (1908) — brother
Sasha Matison (née Abramson) (1906–1940ies) — first wife
Anna Matison (1940-1940ies) — daughter
Yasha Matison (1935–1940ies) — son