Veisman (Weismann) Abram Aronovich (5 December 1907, Preiļi) — Master of Philology.

In 1926, Abram Veisman graduated from secondary school in Riga. Between 1928 and 1929, he worked as a teacher at the Tarbut elementary school in Liepāja. At the same time, he studied at the Faculty of Classical Philology at the University of Latvia, which he completed in 1935, and prepared postgraduate students for university entrance.

From 1935 to 1937, he served in the Latvian Army as an infantryman in the 4th Valmiera Infantry Regiment. Until 1940, he taught Latin at the Riga Jewish City Secondary School and the Tushnya Gymnasium. In 1940–41, he worked as a bureau employee and Latin teacher at the nursing school of the 3rd Riga City Hospital.

At the onset of the war, he was evacuated to Cheboksary, where he worked at the Methodical Bureau of the Ministry of Health, and later as an economist at the Kuybyshev Artel of the Bukhara Textile and Sewing Union.

In 1945, he returned to Riga and until 1949 served as Head of the Planning and Production Department of the ORS (Consumer Services Department) of the Aldaris factory. He then headed the planning group at the Restavrator (Restorer) artel. From 1955 to 1957, he led the planning group at the Kommunar united furniture enterprise. Between 1958 and 1962, he worked as an engineering translator at the design office of the Latvian Industrial Council, and later as a senior engineer in the department responsible for technical and economic assessments for the construction of industrial enterprises.

In 1962, he emigrated to Israel, where he worked as an assistant to examination boards during high school graduation exams in Tel Aviv. Later, he taught at a teacher training college and until 1966 worked as an administrative employee for the municipal authority in Netanya. In 1966, he returned to Riga, and from 1967 worked at the industrial-technical association NOTsnab as a senior engineer in technical-economic project justification, later becoming a methodology specialist for NOT project development.

In 1973, he applied for permission to emigrate to Israel for permanent residence with his cousins.

In 1945, Abram Veisman married Berta Movshevna Weisman (née Rudaeva).

Father: Aron-Leib Uri-Ovseevich Weisman (1881, Rēzekne – 1941, Riga) — teacher at a Jewish school, executed by the Nazis.

Mother: Sora-Ginda Zalmanovna Weisman (née Klod) (1879, Preiļi – 1941, Riga) — executed by the Nazis.

Sisters:

Rakhil Aronovna Weisman (1909, Preiļi – 1941, Riga) — gave private lessons in Riga, executed by the Nazis

Riva Aronovna Kil (?) (née Weisman) (1911, Preiļi – 1941, Malta, Latvian SSR) — executed by the Nazis
Pesya (?) Leibovna Akselrod (née Weisman) (1915, Preiļi – (?))

Brother:

Iosif Aronovich Weisman (1920, Preiļi – 1938, Daugavpils)

Cousins:

Rivka-Gita Yudelevna Girsh (?) (1910, Dvinsk [Daugavpils] – (?)) — member of an agricultural cooperative (kibbutz), resided in Kfar Blum

Laya Yudelevna Melnik (1912, Dvinsk – (?)) — kibbutz member, Kfar Blum
Sima Yudelevna Blausil (1914, Dvinsk – (?)) — kibbutz member, Kfar Blum