Freiduss Abram Izrailevich (7 April 1905, Jekabpils, former Jakobstadt, Courland province) - physician, specializing in ophthalmology.

In 1914, during the First World War, Abram Freiduss was evacuated to Kostroma. In 1919 he returned to Jekabpils, and in 1923 graduated from a gymnasium in Riga. He then left for Prague, where he enrolled in the medical faculty of Charles University. He graduated in 1930 and continued specialization at the university clinic until 1932. In 1933 he specialized in ophthalmology at the polyclinic of Charles University.

In 1934 he moved to Tel Aviv, where until 1936 he worked as an ophthalmologist at a polyclinic. He then returned to Riga and until 1940 worked as an ophthalmologist at the Bikur Cholim hospital. In 1941 he served as an ophthalmologist at the polyclinic of the NKVD medical service in Riga.

In July 1941 he was evacuated to Furmanov, and later to Kemerovo, where he worked in a polyclinic and evacuation hospital until May 1945. At the request of the People’s Commissariat of Health of the Latvian SSR, he returned to Riga, where he worked as an ophthalmologist at the 4th City Polyclinic. In 1945 he was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labour.”

His father was a watchmaker who died in 1918. He was married to Tatyana Lvovna Freiduss. Their son was Boris Freiduss (born 1939).