Gordon Ber Moiseevich (10 September 1908, Dvinsk (now Daugavpils)) — plumber.
In 1919, after completing four years of primary school, Ber Gordon began training as a plumber at a private workshop, and worked independently in the trade until 1922. He then moved permanently to Riga, where from 1922 to 1933 he worked as a plumber and tinsmith for the private firm of Glazman. From 1933 to 1938, he was employed in casual plumbing jobs, and until 1941 worked at the “Kosmoss” knitwear factory.
At the onset of the war, he was evacuated to Frunze (now Bishkek), where from 1941 to 1942 he worked as a mechanic at the Main Directorate of Municipal Water Supply. From March 1942 to September 1943, he served in the Soviet Army as a rifleman in the village of Ilyino, Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) region. In 1943–1944, he resumed his previous employment in Frunze.
In August 1944, he returned to the Latvian SSR and worked as a driver for the Liepāja District Executive Committee until November 1945, and from 1946 to 1948 was employed at the “Rīgas Apavnieks” manufacturing plant in Riga. From April 1948 to January 1952, he worked as a tinsmith for the “Bytovik” artel, and from 1952 to 1961 as first a tinsmith, then plumber, at the “Liesma” artel. Until July 1966, he was a plumber at the “Kvele” factory (later “Straume” plant). He retired in November 1968.
In 1968–1969, he returned briefly to work as a plumber at the School and Children’s Furniture Combine, and from December 1975 to January 1976 worked as a general labourer at the Riga United Printing Forms Enterprise. In 1977, he applied for permission to visit the United States for six months.
In 1933, Ber Gordon married Risa Izrailevna Gordon (née Dubina) (1911, Riga – 1976, Riga), a saleswoman. They had two sons: Ruben Berovich Gordon and David Borisovich Gordon. After his wife’s death, he remarried Ya. M. Gordon (née Khalfina).
His father, Moisey Solomonovich Gordon 1), resident of Israel since 1973; Rasya Moiseevna Gordon (1909, Dvinsk (Daugavpils) – (?)).