Fridman (Friedmann) (née Ginzburg) Gesya (Gesja) Berkovna (10 January 1911, Daugavpils, then Dvinsk — date unknown) — party official.

Gesya Fridman was born into the family of Ber Isaakovich Ginzburg (1864, Preiļi — 1920, Dvinsk) and Ester Mordukhovna Ginzburg (1867, Preiļi — 1938, Dvinsk). From 1928 to 1930 she worked as a bookkeeper in a private firm in Dvinsk. For her membership in the Communist Party she was convicted and served her sentence in the central prisons of Dvinsk and Riga (1930–1936).

After her release she worked at a knitting factory in Riga (1937–1938), and as a bookkeeper at the “Rita” factory in Dvinsk (1938–1940). In 1940 she became administrative manager of the Dvinsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Latvia, and from 1940 to 1941 headed the propaganda department of the district committee of the same party.

During the Second World War she was evacuated to the Bashkir ASSR, where she worked as a bookkeeper at a glass factory in Karaidel (1941–1942) and later at a collective farm (1942–1944). After returning to Riga, she served as head of the party cabinet of the Riga district committee (1945–1947), as a propagandist of the Stalin District Party Committee (1947–1948), and studied at the Republican Party School (1948–1950). From 1950 to 1969 she was head of the cabinet of social sciences at the Riga Soviet Party School. In 1955 she graduated from the Latvian State University.

She was married to Fayvish Yakovlevich Fridman (born 1908, Grīva, Latvia). Their sons are Fridman Valdi Fayvishovich (born 1940, Dvinsk) and Yakov Fayvishovich Fridman (born 1946, Riga).

In 1969 Gesya Fridman petitioned for permission to travel to South Africa for one month to visit her sister, Anna Berkovna Sagov (née Ginzburg) (born 1895, Preiļi), but the request was denied in January 1970.

Family:

Ber Isaakovich Ginzburg (1864–1920) — father
Ester Mordukhovna Ginzburg (1867–1938) — mother
Olga Berkovna Drel (née Ginzburg) (1885, Preiļi — 1960, Saratov) — sister
Anna Berkovna Sagov (née Ginzburg) (1895) — sister
Mordukh Berkovich Ginzburg (1896, Preiļi — 1941, Dvinsk) — brother
Lyuba Berkovna Vainer (née Ginzburg) (1898, Preiļi) — sister
Revekka Berkovna Osetrova (née Ginzburg) (1900, Preiļi — 1947, Riga) — sister
Fayvish Yakovlevich Fridman (1908) — husband
Valdi Fayvishovich Fridman (1940) — son
Yakov Fayvishovich Fridman (1946) — son