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Leitman Abram (1910-1941)

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SurnameLeitman
NameAbram
Birth year1910
Birth month7
Birth day13
Birth placeRiga
Death year1941
Death placeRiga
SexM

Leitman (Leitmann)Abram (13 July 1910, Riga – 1941, Riga) – educator.

In 1928, Abram Leitman graduated from the Jewish Society for the Development of Art and Knowledge Primary and Secondary School, and then left for Brno, Czechoslovakia, to pursue higher education. In 1930, he enrolled in the Law Department of the Faculty of Economics and Law at the University of Latvia. In May 1931, he was admitted to teach Hebrew as an acting teacher at the Supplementary and Evening School of the Jewish Teachers' Society ‘Hamore’ in Riga. He also taught at the I. Rauchwager Private Jewish Secondary and Primary School in Riga and the Ezra Jewish Private Secondary and Primary School. In 1941, he was killed in the Central Riga Prison.

Archival source: Latvian State Historical Archives, Fund 1632, inventory 1, file 12241.