Khait (Heit) Abram Shimonovich (22 June 1900, Bendery, Bessarabia Governorate) — accountant.
His father, Shimon-Shlema Khait (1868–1909), was an unskilled laborer and, because of poor health, died in 1909, leaving Khait’s mother, Enya Khait (1872–1952), a housewife with six children in severe financial hardship.
From the age of 12, Abram Khait worked as an errand boy at the Bendery office of the Dniester Shipping Company. He entered school in 1917. After the Romanian occupation of Bessarabia in 1917, he became a Romanian citizen. Following the Soviet annexation of Bessarabia in 1940, he accepted Soviet citizenship.
He graduated from the Bendery Gymnasium in 1921. From 1921 to 1923 he served in the Romanian Army. From 1923 to 1929 he worked as an accountant for the merchants Kleiner and Tsessarsky, and from 1929 to 1939 as an accountant for the grain-trading company Bunge.
In 1941 Abram Khait was mobilized into the Soviet Army, serving as a detachment and platoon commander. Between 1941 and 1947 he worked on the construction of a railway in Tyumen, employed as a planning economist. After the war he returned to Bendery, where he worked as an economist and senior accountant. In 1952 he moved to Riga, where he became senior accountant at the Riga Educational Combine.
In 1924 Khait married Khava Rabinovich (1901).
He was awarded the medals “For the Victory over Germany,” “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945,” and “For the Defense of Stalingrad.”
Khait’s elder brother, Markus Khait (1894–1918), was mobilized at the beginning of the First World War and was killed in Baku. His brothers Shulim Khait (1896–1941), Srul Khait (1902–1927), and Iosif Khait (1907–1929) died in Bendery. Another brother, David Khait (1898), had lived in Tel Aviv since 1920.
Family:
Khava Khait (née Rabinovich) (1901) — wife
David Khait (1898) — brother
Shimon-Shlema Khait (1868–1909) — father
Enya Khait (1872–1952) — mother
Markus Khait (1894–1918) — brother
Shulim Khait (1896–1941) — brother
Srul Khait (1902–1927) — brother
Iosif Khait (1907–1929) — brother
Eta Khait (1925–1927) — daughter
Shlema Khait (1927–1927) — son