Nekhom (Nechom) Aron Isaevich (12 April 1909, Daugavpils) — shoemaker.

After completing three classes of primary school, Aron Nekhom mastered the shoemaking trade and worked in private workshops in Daugavpils until 1925. In 1925, he moved to Riga, where he was employed at the Riga shoemaking workshops until 1931. From 1931 to 1932, he performed compulsory military service in the Latvian Army. After demobilisation, he returned to his principal trade and continued working as a shoemaker in Riga until 1941.

In 1941, Aron Nekhom was imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto and assigned to forced labour. In 1944, he escaped from the camps and went into hiding with acquaintances. Later in 1944, he joined the front and served in the ranks of the Soviet Army until 1946. From 1946 to 1954, he worked as a shoemaker at the Rīgas Apavnieks artel. Between 1954 and 1962, he was employed as a private shoemaking craftsman in Riga.

In 1962, Aron Nekhom was convicted under Article 123 of the Criminal Code of the Latvian SSR and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. After his release in 1964, he worked as a shoe last maker at the Pirmais Maijs production association.

Nekhom’s brother, Faiva Nekhom (date of birth unknown – 1925), tragically drowned in Riga in 1935. The German occupation of Latvia claimed the lives of almost all members of the Nekhom family. In Riga, his father, Isai Nekhom (1880–1940), his half-brother and half-sisters — Israel Nekhom (1914–1940), Basya Nekhom (1916–1940), and Sonya Nekhom (1920–1940) — as well as his first wife and three sons, Ida Nekhom (née Volkin) (1914–1940), Chaim Nekhom (1933–1940), Egaiva Nekhom (1934–1940), and Boris Nekhom (1941–1940), were murdered.

In 1946, Nekhom married for the second time, to Genya Nekhom (née Kastrel) (1916). Their marriage produced a daughter, Rokha Lyutrina Nekhom (1948). In the 1970s, Aron Nekhom applied for permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family :

Isai Nekhom (1880–1940) — father
Rokha Nekhom (date of birth unknown – 1911) — mother
Ida Nekhom (née Volkin) (1914–1940) — first wife
Chaim Nekhom (1933–1940) — son
Egaiva Nekhom (1934–1940) — son
Boris Nekhom (1940–1941) — son
Genya Nekhom (née Kastrel) (1916) — second wife
Rokha Lutrina (née Nekhom) (1948) — daughter
Faiva Nekhom (date of birth unknown – 1925) — brother
Israel Nekhom (1914–1940) — half-brother
Basya Nekhom (1916–1940) — half-sister
Sonya Nekhom (1920–1940) — half-sister