Mozeshtam (Mosenstamm) Khona (Chona) Sholomovich (25 October 1940, Jēkabpils, Latvia) — industrial worker.

Khona Mozenshtam was born into the family of a tinsmith. His father was Solomon-Sholom Yakovlevich Mozeshtam (born 1914, Krustpils, Latvia), and his mother was Aida Kusilovna Mozeshtam (née Gelbart) (born 1920, Krustpils). He completed 11 grades at Riga Evening Shift School No. 13 in 1971.

From 1957 to 1960 he worked as a shoe components assembler at the “Jaunais Celiņš” artel in Jēkabpils. After moving to Riga, he worked as a laborer at the “Pionieris” shoe factory (1960), as a maintenance fitter at the “Gidrometpribor” plant (1960–1961), and as a duty maintenance fitter at the VEF plant (1962). He then worked as a fitter-tinsmith at the Jēkabpils District Industrial Combine (1962–1963).

From 1963 to 1966 he served in the Soviet Army in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR. After demobilization he returned to Riga, where he worked as a fitter-tinsmith at the Construction and Installation Administration of the Ministry of Local Industry of the Latvian SSR (1966–1967). From 1967 to 1972 he was a fitter-tinsmith and later foreman of the ventilation section of the power shop at the A. S. Popov Radio Factory.

He was married to Vikhna Moiseevna Mozeshtam (née Kopman) (born 1939, Rezekne, Latvia). Their daughter is Tatyana Khonovna Mozeshtam (born1968, Riga).

In 1972 Khona Mozenshtam received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1971 his wife’s sister Sulamis Moiseevna Levina (née Kopman) (born 1935) had been living.

Family:

Solomon-Sholom Yakovlevich Mozeshtam (born 1914) — father
Aida Kusilovna Mozeshtam (née Gelbart) (born 1920) — mother
Eta Sholomovna Mozeshtam (born 1946, Jēkabpils) — sister
Vikhna Moiseevna Mozeshtam (née Kopman) (born 1939) — wife
Tatyana Khonovna Mozeshtam (born 1968) — daughter
Sulamis Moiseevna Levina (née Kopman) (born 1935) — wife’s sister