Merkel (née Bordo) Sheina-Mala Hirshovna (born 1913, Jekabpils) — housewife.

Sheina-Mala Merkel graduated from the Jekabpils Jewish Seven-Year School in 1928. Until 1941 she lived in Viesīte and Krustpils. In 1941 she was evacuated to Tashkent, where she worked at a carbon ore plant. In 1945 she returned to Latvia, settling in Riga. Until 1959 she was a housewife. From 1959 to 1962 she worked as a labourer at the Riga Consumer Services Combine, and from 1962 to 1968 as a general worker at the Riga Jewellery Factory. From 1968 she has been retired.

During the Second World War, only Sheina-Mala Merkel and her sister, Enta Vivat (née Bordo) (born 1918, Krustpils), survived from the family. Her parents, Hirsh Bordo (1882, Krustpils — 1941, Riga) and Ida Bordo (1889, Krustpils — 1941, Riga), and her sisters, Dvora Kodysh (née Bordo) (1907, Krustpils — 1941, Riga) and Rokhl Bordo (1910, Krustpils — 1941, Riga), perished in the Holocaust.

In her marriage to Elyash Merkel (1907, Subate — 1971, Riga), she had two children: Ida Churilova (née Merkel) (born 1946, Riga) and Abram Merkel (born 1949, Riga). In 1972 Sheina-Mala Merkel received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her daughter.

Family:

Elyash Merkel (1907, Subate — 1971, Riga) — husband
Ida Churilova (née Merkel) (born 1946, Riga) — daughter
Abram Merkel (born 1949, Riga) — son
Hirsh Bordo (1882, Krustpils — 1941, Riga) — father
Ida Bordo (1889, Krustpils — 1941, Riga) — mother
Dvora Kodysh (née Bordo) (1907, Krustpils — 1941, Riga) — sister
Rokhl Bordo (1910, Krustpils — 1941, Riga) — sister
Enta Vivat (née Bordo) (born 1918, Krustpils) — sister