Taits (Taitz) Minda Aronovna (23 August 1894, Salantai, Lithuania) — librarian.

Minda Taits was born into a large family and, at the age of nine, was sent to be raised by her mother’s sister in Tukums, where she completed primary school. She later moved to Dvinsk, where she graduated from a gymnasium in 1913, while also giving private lessons.

In 1915, she was evacuated to Vitebsk. From 1916 to 1920, she worked as head of a kindergarten in Vitebsk. From 1921 to 1925, she was director of a kindergarten and orphanage in the Moscow region. From 1925 to 1931, she managed a kindergarten in Leningrad.

Due to illness, she was forced to leave her job and move to Riga to live with relatives, where she stayed until 1935. From 1936 to 1941, she worked in Moscow as a librarian in a children’s library and in the library of the People’s Society.

In 1941, she was evacuated to Altai Krai and until 1942 worked in a local collective farm. From 1943 to 1946, she was a librarian at the Altai Regional Library in Barnaul. In 1947, she returned to Moscow, where until 1951 she worked as a methodologist at the Moscow Regional Library.

In 1951, she moved to Riga. Until 1957, she served as head of a department at the library of the Riga Red Banner School of Coastal Aviation.

She was awarded the medals “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War” and “In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow.”

Her brother Zeev (Taits) Tal (1908, Lithuania) and sister Sara Blum (née Taits) (1906, Lithuania) lived and worked in Israel in the 1960s. Her brother Max Taits (1904, Lithuania) had lived in the United States since 1920.

In 1964, Minda Taits received permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family:

Zeev (Taits) Tal (1908, Lithuania) — brother
Sara Blum (née Taits) (1906, Lithuania) — sister
Max Taits (1904, Lithuania) — brother