Gelman (Hellmann) (née Libgot) Tsira (Tzira) Abramovna (31 July 1928, Kārsava) – seamstress.

Tsira Gelman began her secondary education in 1935, but her studies were interrupted by the war when her family was evacuated to Totma. In 1945, the family returned to Kārsava, and in 1946, she completed seven years of schooling at the Workers’ Evening School.

In 1947, she moved to Riga and began working as a seamstress at the Fantāzija artel (later a factory), where she remained until being transferred to the firm Latvija in 1963.

In 1972, Tsira Gelman applied for an exit visa to emigrate to Jerusalem to join the family of Chaim Levin, the brother of her husband’s mother.

Family:

Helmut Gelman (b. 1924) – husband
Gita Gelman (b. 1956) – daughter
Sarrah Libgot (b. 1891) – mother
Abram Libgot (b. 1895) – father
Mala Briskina (née Libgot) (b. 1925) – sister
Ella Dameshek (née Libgot) (b. 1927) – sister
Hana Blumberg (née Libgot) (b. 1934) – sister