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Terman Sholom Tankhumovich (1898)

Personal data
SurnameTerman
NameSholom
PatronymTankhumovich
Birth year1898
Birth month12
Birth day24
Birth placeRogachev
SexM

Terman (Termann) Sholom (Scholom) Tankhumovich (24 December 1898, Rogachev, Gomel Region — date and place of death unknown) — economic worker.

Sholom Terman completed four classes of the Rogachev municipal vocational school in 1910. From 1911 to 1941, he worked as a mechanic at the Khalturin sawmill (formerly the Boukhak plant before the revolution, Rogachev).

In 1941–1942, he was evacuated to the Kazakh SSR, where he worked at the Thälmann collective farm (Lugovaya station, Dzhambul Region). From 1942 to 1946, he served in the Soviet Army, participating in military operations in Poland and Germany.

After demobilization, he settled in Riga:

• 1946–1947 — storekeeper in the supply department of the HQ of the Baltic Military District

• 1947–1948 — head of a vegetable warehouse at the Latvian republican base “Latosobrrestaurant”

• 1948 — head of warehouse at the Riga agency of Glavsupply (Ministry of Naval Construction)

• 1948–1952 — storekeeper at “Raznoprom”

• 1952–1959 — quality control inspector (OTK) at the Riga district industrial combine

From 1930, he was married to Rakhil Borisovna Ryskina.

Family:

Tankhum Shepovich Terman (1860, Rogachev district — 1933, Rogachev) - father
Nekhama Zalmanovna Terman (née Sorkina) (1862 — 1935, Rogachev) - mother

Rakhil Borisovna Ryskina - wife

Shepa Tankhumovich Terman (b. 1905, lived in Leningrad) - brotherZalman Tankhumovich Terman (b. 1914, lived in Riga) - brother

Ester Tankhumovna Bruk (1900, Rogachev — 1953, Leningrad) - sister

Berta Sholomovna Druker (b. 1936, Rogachev) - daughter

Nina Sholomovna Shmulovich (b. 1946, Riga) - daughter, emigrated to Israel (Rehovot) in 1975.