Zilberberg (Silberberg) (née Rotbart) Mikhlya (Mikhla) Ilinichna (b. 18 November 1919, Jēkabpils) — corset maker.

In 1934, Mikhla Zilberberg moved to Riga and until 1939 worked as a corset maker in a private workshop. In 1940 she graduated from the Jewish Evening Gymnasium. From 1940–1941 she worked as a cashier at the Latvian Consumer Society.

In 1941, she was evacuated to Gorky Region and worked as a seamstress at a factory in Namantan. In 1943 she completed nursing courses and until 1945 served as a nurse in an evacuation hospital located in Zaporizhya.

From 1946–1955 she worked as a corset maker in the artels “Brīvība” and “Lenta” and at the Dorursa Combine. From 1955–1956 she was a cutter at the Riga Household Services Combine. From 1961–1962 she worked as a corset maker at the Riga Individual Tailoring Factory and the Jūrmala Industrial Combine. From 1964 onward she was a homemaker.

She was awarded the medals “For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic”, “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”, and “25 Years of Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.”

In her marriage to Abram Zilberberg (b. 1911, Podvolochisk, Ternopil region), a son was born: Ilya-Mark Zilberberg (b. 1947, Riga).

During the Holocaust, her parents Ilya Rotbart (1874, Jēkabpils – 1941, Jēkabpils) and Libe Rotbart (1878, Jēkabpils – 1941, Jēkabpils), her brother Anatoly Rotbart (1909, Jēkabpils – 1941, Jēkabpils), and her sister Khit (Ginda) Rotbart (1908, Jēkabpils – 1941, Riga) perished.

In 1972, Mikhla Zilberberg received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her brother Itzhak Rotbart (b. 1910, Jēkabpils). She later lived in Hod HaSharon, working as an economist in a school cafeteria.

Family:

Husband — Abram Zilberberg (b. 1911, Podvolochisk, Ternopil region)

Son — Ilya-Mark Zilberberg (b. 1947, Riga)

Father — Ilya Rotbart (1874, Jēkabpils – 1941, Jēkabpils)
Mother — Libe Rotbart (1878, Jēkabpils – 1941, Jēkabpils)
Sister — Khit (Ginda) Rotbart (1908, Jēkabpils – 1941, Riga)
Brother — Abram Rotbart (b. 1905, Jēkabpils)
Brother — Anatoly Rotbart (1909, Jēkabpils – 1941, Jēkabpils)
Brother — Itzhak Rotbart (b. 1910, Jēkabpils)
Sister — Khava Zhukovskaya (née Rotbart, 1913, Jēkabpils – 1957, Riga)

Sister — Beila Rotbart (b. 1917, Pskov)

Sister — Feiga Eidelman (née Rotbart, b. 1918, Jēkabpils)