Shvey (née Sherman) Anna Semyonovna (30.12.1924, Polotsk, Belarus) – dentist. She was born into the family of worker Sherman Semyon Mikhailovich (1898, Polotsk – killed at the front in the Great Patriotic War in 1944) and Sherman Roza Girshevna (1900, Krustpils, Latvia – 1957, Riga). From 1932 she attended the local school, until the family moved to Vyshny Volochek (1936), where she continued her studies until the start of the Great Patriotic War. Her father went to the front in 1941. She was evacuated with her mother to the village of Lebyazhye, Kirov Region, where in 1944 she completed 10 grades.
In 1944 she returned to Vyshny Volochek, from where she moved with her husband to Riga. She was a dependent of his until 1947. She studied at and completed the dental division of the Leningrad Secondary Medical School (1947-1950). She worked as a dentist at the “Majori” sanatorium (1951-1971, Jūrmala).

In her marriage to Shvey Bentsion Yakovlevich (1916, Rēzekne), daughter Golanskaya (née Shvey) Sima Bentsionovna (1945, Riga) was born. The marriage was dissolved in 1967.

In December 1971 she received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since the spring of 1971 her daughter Golanskaya (née Shvey) Sima Bentsionovna (1945) had been living.

N. Voronova

Sherman Semyon Mikhailovich (1898-1944) - father
Sherman Roza Girshevna (1900-1957) – mother
Meerzon (née Sherman) Elizaveta Semyonovna (1921, Polotsk) – sister
Shvey Bentsion Yakovlevich (1916) – husband (divorced)
Golanskaya (née Shvey) Sima Bentsionovna (1945) – daughter