Fleisher (Fleischer) Yuma (Juma) Iosifovich (15 October 1921, Ostrovets, Poland) - trade worker.

Yuma Fleisher was born into the family of baker Iosif Fleisher (1885, Poland — 1943, murdered by the Nazis in the Auschwitz concentration camp) and housewife Khaya Moshkovna Fleisher (née Band) (1886 — 1943, murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz). He completed seven classes of a Polish school in 1935 in Ostrovets and worked as an apprentice mechanic and later as a mechanic in Warsaw (1937–1939).

Following the occupation of Poland, he moved to Dneprodzerzhinsk in the Ukrainian SSR, where he worked as a mechanic at a metallurgical plant (1939–1940). He then relocated to Derbent in the Dagestan ASSR, working as a receiving clerk in the “Zagotzhivsyrye” office (1940–1943). Later he moved to Uzbekistan, to the town of Khilkovy, where he worked as a mechanic and construction foreman on the building of the Farkhad Hydroelectric Power Station (1943–1946). Returning to Tashkent, he worked as an expeditor at a central warehouse and later as a senior goods expert in the stationery division of the Uzkinsbyt administration (1946–1960).

After moving to Riga, Yuma Fleisher worked as a goods expert in the metal goods department of the central base of “Latpotrebsoyuz” (1960–1961), then as a goods expert and later head of the sales department at a metalworking plant, later the “Sarkana Zvaigzne” factory (1961–1974). In 1974 he worked as an engineer in the supply sector for sanitary equipment at “Latkolkhozstroysnab.”

He was married to Bella Lvovna Platinskaya (née Galperin) (1918, Barnaul), with whom he had two children: Alexander Yumovich Fleisher (1948, Tashkent) and Iren Yumovna Fleisher (1957, Tashkent). In 1975 he received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his brother MenachemIosifovich Fleisher (1923, Ostrovets), who had lived there since 1945 after liberation from Auschwitz, and his son Alexander Yumovich Fleisher were already residing.

Family:

Iosif Fleisher (1885–1943) – father
Khaya Moshkovna Fleisher (née Band) (1886–1943) – mother
Berek Iosifovich Fleisher (1916) – brother
Menachem Iosifovich Fleisher (1923) – brother
Meyer Iosifovich Fleisher (1925–1944) – brother
Bella Lvovna Platinskaya (née Galperin) (1918) – wife
Alexander Yumovich Fleisher (1948) – son
Iren Yumovna Fleisher (1957) – daughter