Tager (née Rusonik) Sima Naumovna (14 March 1917, Daugavpils) — laboratory assistant.

After graduating from secondary school in Daugavpils in 1935, Sima Tager completed the nursing school at the Riga hospital “Linas Gaudek” in 1940. Until 1941, she worked as a nurse.

From 1941 to 1946, she worked as a laboratory assistant in Military Hospital No. 2016 on the Northwestern Front. From 1946 to 1948, she worked as a saleswoman in a Riga food store. From 1949 to 1951, she was a laboratory assistant at the Molokovo sanatorium in the town of Molokovo, Chita region.

Until 1958, she did not work; from 1958 to 1959, she was a laboratory assistant at the Riga children’s polyclinic. From 1962 to 1972, she worked as a laboratory assistant at the 4th Riga United City Hospital. From 1972, she was a pensioner.

She had been a member of the CPSU since 1942; in 1971, she was expelled from the party in connection with her move to Israel. She was awarded the medal “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.”

Her mother, Berta Rusonik (1895–1941), and her sister Sonya Guptenshtein (née Rusonik) (1913–1941), were shot in Liepāja in 1941. Her sister Raisa Bizho (née Rusonik) (1915–1951) was buried in Chita. Her brother Mikhail Rusonik (1911–1943) was killed at the front.

In 1973, Sima Tageremigrated from Latvia with her family.

Family:

Osip Tager (1911) — husband
Berta Butina (née Tager) (1948) — daughter
Raisa Tager (1952) — daughter
Raisa Bizho (née Rusonik) (1915–1951) — sister
Sonya Guptenshtein (née Rusonik) (1913–1941) — sister
Mikhail Rusonik (1911–1943) — brother
Naum Rusonik (1889–1934) — father
Berta Rusonik (1895–1941) — mother