Fridman (Friedmann) Abram Maksimovich (13 May 1923, Riga) — economist.

Abram Fridman was born into the family of Maksim Iekhiliyevich Fridman (1887, Gostini, Latvia — 1943, murdered by the Nazis in the Birkenau concentration camp, Poland) and Sheyna Iosifovna Fridman (1898, Jaunjelgava, Latvia — 1941, murdered by the Nazis in the Rumbula Forest).

He received his secondary education in 1941 in Riga and later graduated by correspondence from the Riga Cooperative Technical School in 1959. During the Second World War he was imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto and the Mežaparks concentration camp (1941–1944), and later in the Stutthof and Buchenwald concentration camps (1944–1945, Germany).

After liberation he underwent treatment in hospitals in Germany and Czechoslovakia (1945), and later in a hospital in the stanitsa of Bryukhovetskaya, Krasnodar Region (1945–1946). After returning to Riga, he worked as an economist at the District Statistical Office (1946–1947), as an economist at the drilling trust of Volgozhneft in the Komi ASSR (1947–1953, Volgozh), as a planner at the base of Glavkoopkulttorg (1953–1954, Riga), and later as a senior commodities expert at the bases of Glavkoopkulttorg (1954–1962) and Latkulttorg (1962–1969).

He was married to Rakhil Movshevna Fridman (née Paykina) (born 1921); the couple had no children.

In 1969 Abram Fridman received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1945 his brother, Ruvin Maksimovich Fridman (born 1924, Riga), had been living.

Family:

Maksim Iekhiliyevich Fridman (1887–1943) — father
Sheyna Iosifovna Fridman (1898–1941) — mother
Ruvin Maksimovich Fridman (1924) — brother
Elias Maksimovich Fridman (1927) — brother
Rakhil Movshevna Fridman (née Paykina) (1921) — wife

Note:

His brothers, Ruvin and Elias, were deported by the Nazis to Germany in 1941 and held in concentration camps. After liberation by Allied forces in 1945, Ruvin settled permanently in then-Palestine, while Elias emigrated to the United States.