Vainshtein (Weinstein) (née Yankovich, first marriage – Gavartina) Sara Elyakimovna (15 April 1913, Riga) – worker.

Sara Vainshtein was born into the family of glazier Elyakim Zalmanovich Yankovich (1871–1941, Riga) and housewife Mera Khaimovna Yankovich (1872, Panevezys – 1942, Leninabad). She completed primary school, worked as a milliner’s apprentice, and later as a milliner in Riga until 1941. She was evacuated to Leninabad, where she worked at a canning factory until 1945. Upon returning to Riga, she married and became a homemaker.

In her first marriage to Abram Mendelevich Gavartin (1913, Balvi – killed at the front in WWII in 1943), there were no children.

In her second marriage to Leib Meerovich Vainshtein (b. 1913), she had a daughter Mira Leibovna Simson (née Vainshtein) (b. 1946, Riga) and a son Meer Leibovich Vainshtein (b. 1949, Riga).

In 1972, Sara Vainshtein received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1929 her husband’s brother, David Meerovich Vainshtein, had resided.

Elyakim Zalmanovich Yankovich (1871–1941) – father
Mera Khaimovna Yankovich (1872–1942) – mother
Yakov Elyakimovich Yankovich (1903, Riga – killed in the Riga Ghetto in 1941) – brother
Abram Elyakimovich Yankovich (1911, Riga – died at the front in WWII in 1942) – brother
Dveira Elyakimovna Fogelson (née Yankovich) (1913, Riga – killed in the Riga Ghetto in 1941) – sister
Tema Elyakimovna Yankovich (1926, Riga – killed in the Riga Ghetto in 1941) – sister
Abram Mendelevich Gavartin (1913–1943) – first husband
Leib Meerovich Vainshtein (b. 1913) – second husband
Mira Leibovna Simson (née Vainshtein) (b. 1946) – daughter from second marriage
Meer Leibovich Vainshtein (b. 1949) – son from second marriage