Krechmer (Kretschmer) Yeshua (Ieschua) Borisovich (June 17, 1936, Riga) — employee.

During World War II, Yeshua Krechmer was evacuated with his mother to Tashkent. In 1945 he returned to Riga, where he studied at seven-year school No. 81 and later at secondary school No. 22, graduating in 1954. In 1959 he graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Riga Polytechnic Institute and began working as a foreman at a construction trust in Ventspils.

In 1960 he was transferred to Riga, where he worked as a foreman at a house-building plant and, from October of the same year, as a group leader at the Riga design and engineering institute Teploelektropaket.

In 1959 he unsuccessfully tried to obtain permission to emigrate with his family to Israel. In 1971 he emigrated to the United States for permanent residence.

Subject to military service, reserve lieutenant.

In 1961 he married Fruma Shaevna Rizga (née Polskaya; first marriage — Kretschmer). They had a daughter — Sabina Yeshuyevna Bulaeva (née Kretschmer). The marriage was dissolved in 1971.

Stepfather: Krechmer Boris Isaakovich (1902, Jaunjelgava — ?) — electrical engineer.

Mother: Krechmer Polya Movshevna (née Garber; first marriage — Zusman).

Sister: Kretschmer Susanna Borisovna.

Family:

Polya Movshevna Krechmer (née Garber; first marriage — Zusman) — mother
Boris Isaakovich Krechmer — stepfather
Susanna Borisovna Krechmer — sister
Fruma Shaevna Rizga (née Polskaya; first marriage — Kretschmer) — wife (divorced)
Sabina Yeshuyevna Bulaeva (née Kretschmer) — daughter