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Glickman Zelda Meyerovna (1905)

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SurnameGlickman
NameZelda
PatronymMeyerovna
Birth year1905
Birth month3
Birth day19
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Glickman (Glickmann) Zelda Meyerovna (born 19 March 1905, Riga – date of death unknown) — educator.

Zelda Glickman studied at the Riga Municipal Gymnasium and subsequently at an institute of higher education. From 1925 to 1940, she worked as a teacher at various Latvian schools, including the 1st Riga Municipal Jewish Primary School, and schools in Krustpils, Skaistkalne, Krāslava, Rēzekne, and Daugavpils.

During the years 1941–1944, she worked in evacuation as a teacher in the village of Vyry, Tagaysky District, Kuybyshev Oblast, and later in Kuybyshev as an educator at a children’s tuberculosis sanatorium.

From 1944 to 1950, she was employed in Riga and Sigulda as an operative officer with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Between 1947 and 1949, she studied at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, Faculty of History. From 1950 to 1954, she served as a propagandist for the Riga District Party Committee.

She later became headmistress of the Dreiliņi Seven-Year School.