Meyerovich (Meerowitsch) Tsiva (Tziwa) Yankelevna (née Gorina; first marriage Druyan) (25 September 1918, Zilupe, Latvia) — worker, saleswoman.

Tsiva Meyerovich was born into the family of Yankel Abramovich Gorin (1890, Sebezh, Pskov Province — 1939, Rybinsk) and Ida Ioelevna Gorina (1892, Zilupe — 1942, Leningrad; today Saint Petersburg). She completed secondary school in 1933. From 1933 to 1935 she worked as a shop assistant in Truskinovsky’s grocery store in Zilupe. After moving to Riga, she worked as a weaver at the Latlini factory (1935–1937) and as a worker at the photo and radio factory of the Leibovich Joint-Stock Company (1937–1941).

She joined the Workers’ Guard and, retreating under combat conditions, reached Tallinn, where she fell ill and was sent to Leningrad. There she worked as a nursing orderly in a military hospital (1941–1943). She later moved to Voronezh Region, where she worked in the local forestry enterprise (1943, Chernávka station). After relocating to Gomel in the Byelorussian SSR, she worked as a waitress in the canteen of a military unit (1944–1945).

Upon returning to Latvia, she worked in Riga as a waitress at the Nakhimov Naval School (1945–1946), then was a homemaker (1946–1950). From 1950 to 1954 she worked as a sales assistant in the 2nd Riga Municipal Industrial Trade Organisation, after which she again devoted herself to domestic work (1954–1969).

In her marriage to Shlema Borukhovich Druyan (1909, Ludza, Latvia — 1947, Riga), a daughter was born: Ida Shlemovna Druyan (1947, Riga).

In her second marriage to Leiba Moiseevich Meyerovich (1909, Sabile, Latvia), a son was born: Moisey Leibovich Meyerovich (1954, Riga).

Note: In 1961, Leiba Moiseevich formally adopted Ida Shlemovna Druyan, giving her his surname and patronymic; thereafter she was known as Ida Leibovna Meyerovich.

In 1969 Tsiva Meyerovich received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1945 her husband’s sister, Livia Moiseevna Königsberg (née Meyerovich) (1920, Sabile), had been living.

Family :

Yankel Abramovich Gorin (1890–1939) — father
Ida Ioelevna Gorina (1892–1942) — mother
Ioel Yankelevich Gorin (1912, Zilupe — killed in action in 1944) — brother
Shlema Borukhovich Druyan (1909–1947) — first husband
Leiba Moiseevich Meyerovich (1909) — second husband

Ida Leibovna Meyerovich (born 1947) — daughter from first marriage, adopted by second husband

Moisey Leibovich Meyerovich (born 1954) — son
Livia Moiseevna Königsberg (née Meyerovich) (born 1920) — husband’s sister