Leitman (Leitmann) Ita Mendelievna (April 3, 1916, Riga — ?) — teacher of English.

Ita Leitman was born into the family of Mendel Leitman (… — 1918, Riga) and Dobre Leitman (… — 1941, Riga).

Until 1941 she studied at the State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. In 1941 she was evacuated to the Gorky Region. From 1941 to 1942 she taught German at the seven-year school of the village of Machikha in the Bardymsky District of Molotov Region. In 1942–43 she studied at the nursing school in Beloretsk, Bashkir ASSR. In 1943–44 she served as a nurse at a hospital for prisoners of war in the town of Mozhga, Bashkir ASSR.

In 1944–45 she taught English at the Alma-Ata Mining and Metallurgical Institute.

In 1946 Ita Leitman graduated from the Riga Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.

In 1947 she worked as a translator for the MGB of the Latvian SSR, and the same year taught English at the Nakhimov Naval School in Riga. In 1947–48 she taught English at the Polytechnic School of the Ministry of Communications of the Latvian SSR.

From 1949 to 1962 she taught English in Riga schools No. 40, 32, and 54.

In 1963 she received permission to emigrate to Israel, invited by her sister, Berta Reikh (née Leitman) (1906, Riga), who had emigrated from Latvia to Palestine in 1936.

Family:

Mendel Leitman (… — 1918, Riga) — father
Dobre Leitman (… — 1941, Riga) — mother
Abram Leitman (…, Riga — …) — brother
Berta Reikh (née Leitman) (1906, Riga) — sister
Masha Leitman (…, Riga — …, Riga) — sister
Iosif Leitman (… — 1941, Riga) — brother
Osher Leitman (1908, Riga) — brother
David Leitman (1910, Riga) — brother