Gelbart Urya (Uriah) Solomonovich (27 January 1937, Krustpils) – mechanical technician.

Urya Gelbert was born into the family of Solomon Berelevich Gelbart (1916, Jēkabpils – killed near Moscow in 1941), a shoemaker, and Mikhla Davidovna Itsikson (b. 1918, Krustpils), a homemaker. In 1941, he was evacuated to the town of Kotel’nich. Upon returning to Latvia in 1945, he attended Krustpils Secondary School No. 2 and, from 1951 to 1955, studied at Jēkabpils Secondary School No. 2.

He worked in a military unit as a storekeeper and studied at the Riga Construction Technical School (1956–1959). In Riga, he worked as a tower crane operator for the Stroimekhanizatsiya trust (1959–1964), and continued in the same profession with the Construction and Assembly Department (UB) and Construction Directorate (AK) (1964–1972).

He married Feiga Nisonovna Gelbart (née Dori) (b. 1937, Rēzekne), and their son, Oleg Urevich Gelbart, was born in 1962 in Riga.

In 1972, 5Urya Gelbert was granted permission to emigrate to Israel, where his wife’s uncle, Nokhum Abovich Tager, had been living since 1937.

Family:

Solomon Berelevich Gelbart (1916–1941) – father
Mikhna Davidovna Itsikson (b. 1918) – mother
Tsiva Abramovna Babis (b. 1950) – foster sister
Chaya Berelevna Tager – aunt (father’s sister)
Nokhum Abovich Tager (b. 1916, Rēzekne) – wife’s uncle
Feiga Nisonovna Gelbart (née Dori) (b. 1937) – wife
Oleg Urevich Gelbart (b. 1962) – son