Blaer (née Brunman) Ester (Esther) Movshevna (27 October 1905, Dvinsk (Daugavpils) – 1989, Israel) – seamstress.

Ester Blaer completed 4 grades of a primary Jewish school. At the age of 12, she became an apprentice in a tailoring workshop. After her apprenticeship, she worked as a hired seamstress. From 1920 to 1921, she was an apprentice in the tailoring workshop of a master named Bapka. Until 1927, she worked as a hired seamstress for various employers. After 1927, she was a homemaker.

During World War II, Ester Blaer was evacuated with her family to the village of Maryevka in the Pestravka District, Kuybyshev Region (now Samara Region). In 1945, she returned to Daugavpils. In 1959, she visited the People’s Republic of Poland. From 1966, she resided in Israel.

In 1927, Ester married Yomtov Naumovich Blaer. They had one son and two daughters: Yeshua Yantovich Blaer, Minna Yomtovna Blaer, and Musya Yomtovna Morozova (née Blaer) (1941, village of Pestravka, Kuybyshev Region (now Samara Region) – (?)) – physician at the tuberculosis hospital (Polyclinic No. 2), who resided in the city of Slonim.

Father – Movsha Leibovich Brunman (1863, Dinaburg (Daugavpils) – 1930, Daugavpils) – worked as a clerk at Gurvich’s mill in Daugavpils.

Mother – Beyla Borukhovna Brunman (1863, Rezekne – (?)) – perished in the Daugavpils Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

Sisters: Roza Movshevna Zilberbrant (née Brunman) (1898, Dvinsk (Daugavpils) – 1941, Vilani) – shot by Nazi occupiers; Shifra Movshevna Laivinskaya (née Brunman) (1903, Dvinsk (Daugavpils) – (?)) – perished in the Daugavpils Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.