Bikson (Biksohn) Simon Movshevich (5 May 1909, Jēkabpils – 5 July 1974, Riga) , an economic worker.
After completing seven grades, Simon Bikson worked in the family trading enterprise from 1925 to 1940. In 1940–41, he was the head of the cotton and silk department of the Daugavpils City Industrial Food Trade. During 1941–45, he served as a telephone operator in the 43rd Guards Rifle Division, 94th Artillery Regiment. From 1946 to 1947, he was the warehouse manager at the ORS base of the Naval Construction Directorate No. 5 in Riga; from 1947 to 1952, he served as warehouse manager and selector at the Lattestiltorg base; in 1952, he was a supply agent at the Riga Shoe Artel; and from 1952 to 1962, he worked as a senior salesperson and section head at Store No. 35 of the First Riga City Industrial Trade and Textile-Sewing-Shoe Trade.
Simon Bikson served a sentence from 1962 to 1965 and was released early. From 1965 to 1967, he worked in the Special Directorate for Major Industrial Construction of the Liepāja Trust; from 1967 to 1968, in the Riga Territorial General Construction Trust; in 1968, at the Riga Territorial Construction Directorate No. 5; and from 1968 to 1971, at the “Uzvara” Confectionery Factory.
Simon Bikson was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medals “For Courage,” “For Combat Merit,” “For the Defence of Moscow,” and “For the Victory over Germany.”
From 1940 to 1970, Simon Bikson was married to Raisa Lvovna Bikson (née Ioelson) (1917, Daugavpils – ?, ?), who emigrated to Israel in 1972. Their daughter, Gita Simonovna Bikson (b. 1947, Riga), also emigrated to Israel in 1972. Their son, Ilya Simonovich Bikson (1953, Riga – 1960, Riga), passed away in childhood. From 1971 to 1974, Simon Bikson was married to Maria Saulovna Zavadovskaya.
Simon’s parents perished in the Daugavpils ghetto. His brother was Rafael Movshevich Bikson (1906, ? – ?, ?), and his sister was Feiga Movshevna Davidson (1917, Daugavpils – ?, ?). On 20 December 1972, Simon Movshevich Bikson's request to visit his wife's sister in France was deemed inadvisable by the Deputy Chairman of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR.