Ulman (Ulmann) (née Sperling) Beila Movshovna (5 May 1918, Mtsensk, Oryol Region — ?) — worker.

Beila Ulman was born into the family of a refugee from Latvia, Movsha Sperling (1883, Dagda — 1943), an employee, and Sara Sperling (1888, Krāslava — 1919). In 1919, the family returned to Latvia and settled in Riga. She completed seven grades of primary school in 1934.

From 1934 to 1939, she worked as a shop assistant in Shlosberg’s confectionery in Riga. She married Yakov Ulman (1909, Riga — 1941). In 1942, she worked as a laborer on a collective farm in the Frunze District of Kirov Region. In 1942–1943, she was employed as a knitter in a disabled people’s artel in the city of Leninsk (Andijan Region).

In 1943, she completed nursing courses and from 1943 to 1945 worked as a nurse for the GUAS NKVD in Tula, Bryansk, Vilnius, and Riga. In 1945, her son Misha Ulman (1945, Vilnius) was born. Her marriage with the child’s father, Yakov Shigris (1922, Bucharest), was concluded in the Vilnius synagogue and was not officially registered.

In 1946, she worked as a shop assistant in the 2nd Riga Municipal Industrial Trade. In 1948–1950 and 1951–1955, she worked as a laborer in the artel “Ādu galanterija.” In 1950–1951, she was a cashier at the “Dynamo” stadium in Riga. From 1955 to 1961, she worked in the artel “Promprodukt.” From 1961, she was a senior textile worker at the factory “Rīgas Adītājs.”

In 1966, Beila Ulman applied for permission to emigrate to Israel to join her brother Shlomo Sperling (1912, Minsk), who had left Latvia in 1939; permission was granted in 1971.

Family:

Yakov Ulman (1909–1941) — first husband
Movsha Sperling (1883–1943) — father
Sara Sperling (1888–1919) — mother
Misha Ulman (1945, Vilnius) — son
Shlomo Sperling (1912, Minsk) — brother
Mikhail Pyatigorsky (1912, Ukraine) — second husband
Yakov Shigris (1922, Bucharest) — partner