Belkind Abram Leibovich (born 2.11.1920, Riga) – press operator.
Abram Belkind was the son of Minna Belkind (1895–1941) and Leib Belkind (1893–1940). In 1937, he completed nine years of education at a Riga city secondary school.
From 1937 to 1940,Abram Belkind worked as a messenger at the Livshits company in Riga, at 21 Grecinieku Street. In 1940–41, he was a sales assistant at the warehouse of Riga’s 1st Municipal Industrial Trade Organisation. In 1941, he was evacuated to the Kazakh SSR, where he worked on the Chokpar state farm until 1943. From 1943 to 1945, he worked as a tractor driver in the Belorechensk District of Krasnodar Krai.
In 1946, Abram Belkind returned to Riga. That year, he worked as an inspector-accountant at the Kirov District Bureau in Riga. In 1947, he was a shop assistant at Store No. 4 of the Arts Administration under the Ministry of Culture of the Latvian SSR. From 1947 to 1951, he was a warehouse manager at the Latvian Republican Beekeeping Office. From 1952 to 1962, he worked as a press operator at the Blazma and Krasny Khimik artels, the Riga Multi-Industry Plant, the Riga Chemical Factory, and the Ausma production association.
Since 1962, Abram Belkind worked as a second-class electrician at the Riga Paper Products Plant.
In his first marriage to Alexandra Dolgopolova (divorced in 1949), he adopted her son, Eliazar Belkind (born 1945). In his second marriage to Gita Belkind (née Kan) (born 1924, Kalish, Poland), they had a daughter, Inna Belkind (born 1950).
During the Holocaust, his mother, his sister Slava Belkind (1903–1941), and his brother Lazar Belkind (1905–1941) perished. His brother Khanan Belkind (born 1912) emigrated to Palestine in 1933 in search of work.
In 1966, Abram Belkind was granted permission to emigrate to Israel.
Family:
Alexandra Dolgopolova – first wife
Eliazar Belkind (born 1945) – son
Gita Belkind (née Kan) (born 1924, Kalish, Poland) – second wife
Inna Belkind (born 1950) – daughter
Minna Belkind (1895–1941) – mother
Leib Belkind (1893–1940) – father
Slava Belkind (1903–1941) – sister
Lazar Belkind (1905–1941) – brother
Khanan Belkind (born 1912) – brother