Sara Esther Mintz nee Neustadt was born in Moscow, Russia (USSR), 1883. She was a housewife and married to Vladimir. Prior to WWII she lived in Riga, Latvia. During the war she was in Riga, Latvia. Sara Esther was murdered in the Shoah. Place of death: Rumbula, Latvia, 1941.
List of names of Jewish residents of Latvia, the result of research by the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia under the supervision of Prof. Ruvin Ferber and with the cooperation of the Latvia State Historical Archives, 2002
During the Shoah, Jews were murdered in a variety of ways, among them gassing, shooting, burning, drowning or burial alive, exhaustion through forced labor, starvation, epidemic diseases, deprivation of medical care and minimal hygienic conditions, and more. Some Jews took their own lives in order to escape arrest and further persecution, or to end their hopeless, relentless suffering.