Prezma (Presma) Mariama Yakovlevna (1911 – unknown) — seamstress, political activist.

Mariama Prezma began her working life in 1927 in Daugavpils as a seamstress in a tailoring workshop.

She participated in the revolutionary movement, was a member of MOPR (International Red Aid), and joined an illegal Komsomol organisation. In 1930 she was elected to the Daugavpils City Committee of the Komsomol of Latvia. She was involved in distributing illegal literature, collecting funds to support political prisoners, and organising clandestine meetings.

For her revolutionary activities she was arrested in 1931 and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. After her release she moved to Riga, where she continued her underground revolutionary work.

During the Second World War she was evacuated to the USSR and worked as a seamstress in tailoring workshops. After the war she returned to Riga, where from 1945 to 1948 she first worked as an economist at the wool industry trust and later as head of the personnel department at the factory “Baltijas Modes Atelje”.

From 1949 to 1964 she was a homemaker raising two sons, born in 1948 and 1951. From 1964 she worked as a disinfector. She took an active part in public life, including participation in the People’s Control group.