Berman Simanis Davidovich (28.11.1925, Riga) - worker.
Simanis Berman was born into the family of a merchant David Idelevich Berman (1883, Zhemel, Belgium, according to other data - 1886, Bauska, Latvia - died in prison in 1942, Kirov region) and a housewife Beila Mendelevna Berman (1903, Riga - 1947, Yartsevsky district, Krasnoyarsk region). He studied at Riga Jewish School No. 9 (1933-1938), studied at Bauska State Gymnasium (1938-1941).
In 1941, as a member of the family of a large merchant (annual turnover - 240 thousand lats) Simanis Berman was deported to Berelus district of Krasnoyarsk region, where he worked as a worker at the district hospital (1941-1942), later his family was moved to the village of Ust-Kan in the same region, where he was a labourer at logging of the State Shipping Company (1942-1943), then the family was resettled again - to Vorogovo village of Yartsevsky district of the Taimyr National District, where Simanis was a labourer at logging in the Taimyr fish trust.
In 1946 together with his sister Liba Simanis Berman returned to Latvia with a children's train of evacuees from the Krasnoyarsk region. He worked in Riga - as a fireman of the fire brigade No. 6 (1947-1949), as head of the supply department of the Riga County Industrial Complex (1949-1950), as a supply agent of the Riga Proletarian District Re-building Office (1950), as a buffet man in the restaurant ‘Corso’ (1950, Jurmala).
In 1950 Simanis Berman was arrested and deported to the Krasnoyarsk Territory as an exile and not evacuated. He worked as a timber brakeman in Turukhansk timber farm (1950-1952), was transferred to the Yenisei rafting office as a tensman (1952-1955), moved to Kansk to his brother Robert, where he worked as a brakeman at the timber plant, head of the timber yard warehouse, foreman at the cotton mill (1955-1957).
In 1957 Simanis Berman was removed from the special settlement register and returned to Riga. He worked as a plastics presser at the Riga Kirov District Municipal Services Combine (1957), as a machine operator at the Metal Processing Plant (1957-1958), as a plastics presser at the Raznootraslevoy combine (1958-1960), head of the warehouse of the canteen No. 37 in Riga's Proletarian District (1960), then he returned to the combine (later re-named Straume Plant) to work as a plastics presser and senior dispatcher (1960-1971).
There were no children in his marriage with Mirjam Nohimovna Dolgitser (1929). The marriage was dissolved in 1956.
In marriage to Gita Ilinichna Berman (Dvorkina, in the 1st marriage - Klimova) (1930, Riga) Simanis Berkman had a daughter Rayana Simanovna Berkman (1962, Riga).
In 1971 Simanis Berman received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his brother, Robert Davidovich Berman (1927, Riga), and cousin Leiser Rafaelovich Frumak (1918, Riga) had been living since spring 1971.
David Idelievich Berman(1883 or 1886-1942) - father
Beyla Mendelevna Berman (1903-1947) - mother
Robert Davidovich Berman (1927, Riga) brother
Liba Davidovna Fink (Berman) (1931, Riga) - sister
Leiser Rafaelovich Frumak (1918) - cousin
Mirjam Nohimovna Dolgitser (1929) - 1st wife
Gita Ilinichna Berman (Dvorkina, in the 1st marriage - Klimova) (1930, Riga) - 2nd wife Rayana Simanovna Berkman (1962,Riga) - daughter.