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Feld Abram Vulfovich (1928)

Personal data
SurnameFeld
NameAbram
PatronymVulfovich
Birth year1928
Birth month7
Birth day8
Birth placeRiga
SexM

Feld Abram Vulfovich (8 July 1928, Riga) — worker.

Abram Feld was born into the family of a worker, Vulf Danilovich Feld (1903, Jelgava – killed at the front during the Second World War in 1941), and a housewife, Tsilya (Tsipa) Abramovna Feld, née Neiburger (1902, Jelgava). He began school in 1934; was evacuated to Yaroslavl Region, where he worked at the collective farm “Krasnoye Znamya” (1941). After relocating to Chimbay, Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region, studied at school (1941–1942). In 1943, moved to Moscow, where he worked as an apprentice painter in the District Military Construction Department of the NKVD Border Troops (1943–1944). After returning to Riga, worked as a forwarding agent — at Factory No. 85 (1944–1946), at the “Sarkana Zvaigzne” factory (1946–1947); studied at Vocational School No. 18 (1947–1948); worked as a projectionist in the “Rigas Foto” artel (1948–1949); served in the Soviet Army (1950–1953); after demobilisation worked as a photographer — in the “Rigas Foto” artel (1953–1964), at the Riga District Consumer Services Combine (1964–1965), at “Zapryba” (1965–1966), and at the “Rigas Foto” combine (1966–1968).

In marriage to Genya Rafailovna Feld, née Balkina (1928, Rezekne – 1969, Tel Aviv, Israel), daughters were born: Anna Abramovna Aleksandrova (née Feld) (1946, Riga) and Aviva Abramovna Feld (1956, Riga).

In 1968, Abram Feld received permission to emigrate to Israel (with his wife and younger daughter), where since 1936 his wife’s aunt — Liza Khaimovna Kacher — had lived, and since 1967 — his wife’s cousin, Israel Faivushevich Kaplan (1912, Riga).

Family:

Vulf Danilovich Feld (1903–1941) — father
Tsilya Abramovna Feld (née Neiburger) (1902) — mother
Gita Vulfovna Movshovich (née Feld) (1927, Riga) — sister
Ida Vulfovna Zake (née Feld) (1935, Riga) — sister
Brokha Vulfovna Blekman (née Feld) (1939, Riga) — sister
Ber Vulfovich Feld (1931, Riga) — brother
Genya Rafailovna Feld, née Balkina (1928–1969) — wife
Anna Abramovna Aleksandrova (née Feld) (1946) — daughter
Aviva Abramovna Feld (1956) — daughter