Wasserman (Vasserman, Wassermann) Berka Aronovich (28 July 1904, Viesīte) — clerical worker.
After completing six grades at the primary school in Viesīte, Berka Wasserman worked from June 1923 to August 1925 as a timber grader under his father’s supervision. From then until July 1930, he was first an apprentice, then a timber grader at the Timber Export firm owned by Zalkind in Riga. From 1930 to 1934, he worked for Teitelbaum in Riga; from 1934 to 1936 — for Ioffe in Riga; and from 1936 to 1940 — for Blumberg-Rozovsky in the Jēkabpils district.
From July 1940 to June 1941, he served as a responsible foreman on Construction Site No. 28-48 in Jēkabpils. During the war, he was evacuated to Tashkent, where he worked as a procurement agent for the construction of the Academic Theatre, then as a bricklayer, site foreman in the labour army, and a supply agent in the 370th Military Construction District of Uzbekistan.
In 1945, he returned to Jēkabpils, where between 1945 and 1953 he held various roles: warehouse manager, senior supply agent for ORS (Department of Workers’ Supply), head of a timber section, and deputy director of the Jēkabpils Forest Committee. Until 1960, he worked as a shop assistant at the Jēkabpils timber trading warehouse. He then managed Shop No. 8 of the Latyuvelirtorg office in Riga for a year. From 1961 to 1969, and again from 1973 to 1977, he was a master craftsman at the Inčukalns Forest Enterprise (Riga district, Inčukalns village council). From December 1969 to May 1973, he worked as a kiosk vendor for Soyuzpechat in Riga. He retired in 1977. In 1980, he applied for permission to emigrate to Israel for permanent residence.
On 9 September 1929,Berka Wasserman married Riva Mendelevna Vasermanis (née Godina; formerly Wasserman until 1976). They had a daughter and two sons: Zara-Beila Berkovna Popova (née Wasserman), Mark Berkovich Wasserman (9 September 1946, Jēkabpils – (?)), an engineer atthe Gipronikel institute in Leningrad, and Ayzik Berkovich Wasserman.
His father was Aron Libmanovich Wasserman (1871, Livenhof [Līvāni] – 1941, Viesīte); his mother — Esfir Abramovna Wasserman (1873, Viesīte – 1931, Viesīte).
Siblings:
Abram Aronovich Wasserman (1892, Viesīte – 1932, Viesīte), buried in Jēkabpils
David Aronovich Wasserman (1899, Viesīte – 1941, Viesīte)
Ayzik Aronovich Wasserman (1902, Viesīte – 1936, Riga)
Riva Aronovna Levit (née Wasserman) (1895, Viesīte – 1941, Viesīte)