Rodman (Rodmann) Mozus (Mosus) Shuelevich (29 February 1909, Daugavpils) — shoemaker.

From the age of ten, Mozus Rodman lived in an orphanage in Daugavpils. In 1922 he began working as a laborer and until 1928 was employed by private employers in his native city.

In 1928 Mozus Rodman moved to Riga, where until 1931 he worked as a shoemaker in a private workshop. From 1931 to 1932 he served in the Latvian Army in the Sigulda Infantry Regiment. Until 1940 he worked as a shoemaker in the Klesh workshops in Riga. In 1940 he transferred to work at the industrial combine of the Kirov District of Riga.

In July 1941 he was imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto and remained in Riga concentration camps until the transfer of prisoners to Poland in 1944. After liberation from the camps, he volunteered for the Soviet Army and served as a mortar gunner in an independent mortar regiment.

After returning to Riga, from 1946 to 1957 Mozus Rodman worked as a shoemaker at the leather and footwear combine “Spars.” From 1957 to 1971 he worked as a shoemaking technician in the footwear production laboratory of the association “Rekord.”

Rodman’s cousin, Pesya Dreer (née Zalipskaya) (1928), emigrated to Israel in 1970. His parents, Shmuel Rodman (1876–1914) and Khaya Rodman (née Mikhelson) (1878–1915), were born and buried in Daugavpils.

Rodman was not officially married, but lived in a civil union with Faina Ginsberg (née Zalipskaya) (1921).

He was awarded the medals “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945,” “Twenty Years of Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945,” “50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR,” and “25 Years of Victory of the Armed Forces in the Great Patriotic War.”

Family:

Faina Ginsberg (née Zalipskaya) (1921) — civil partner
Shmuel Rodman (1876–1914) — father
Khaya Rodman (née Mikhelson) (1878–1915) — mother
Bella Brin (née Rodman) (1907) — sister
Pesya Dreer (née Zalipskaya) (1928) — cousin