Sverdlova (Swerdlowa) Zhaneta Zeligovna (10 March 1940, Riga) — physician.

Zhaneta Sverdlova was born in a family of employees: Zelig Peretsovich Sverdlov (1905, Polotsk, Belarus — 1961, Riga) and Elvira Gerasimovna Sverdlova (née Reiser; 1904, Dvinsk [now Daugavpils] — 1964, Riga).

In 1941, she was evacuated with her family to Novosibirsk, returning to Riga in 1945. She attended Riga Secondary School No. 12 (1947–1957). From 1957 to 1958, she worked as a packer at the central warehouse of the Main Pharmaceutical Administration (GAPU).

In 1958, she entered the Gorky Medical Institute (Gorky; now Nizhny Novgorod), transferring in 1960 to the Riga Medical Institute, from which she graduated in 1964.

From 1964 to 1965, she worked as a district physician at the Jelgava Railway Hospital. From 1965 to 1980, she was a district physician at the polyclinic department of the Combined Hospital No. 5.

She was married to Israel Tsalerevich Egenburg (1937, Bobruisk, Mogilev Region, Belarus). Their son is Elmar Israelevich Egenburg (1967, Riga).

In 1980, Zhaneta Sverdlova received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1970 her aunt (her father’s half-sister), Sara Sinaevna Tsiser (née Sivoshinskaya) (1912, Riga), had been living.

Family:

Zelig Peretsovich Sverdlov (1905–1961) — father
Elvira Gerasimovna Sverdlova (née Reiser; 1904–1964) — mother
Israel Tsalerevich Egenburg (1937) — husband
Elmar Israelevich Egenburg (1967, Riga) — son
Sara Sinaevna Tsiser (née Sivoshinskaya) (1912, Riga) — aunt