Famous People with Name Berman

Bermane "B. WARE" Stiverne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bermane "B. WARE" Stiverne: is a Canadian heavyweight boxer of Haitian descent.Stiverne was Canadian superheavyweight silver medallist in 2005. In 2003 and 2004 he won bronze. In international competition he beat Robert Helenius (points) and David Price (boxer) (KO). His record was

Adolf Avraham Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Adolf Avraham Berman: was a Polish-Israeli activist and politician.During World War II he was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto, and a member of the presidium of the Underground National Committee. He also served as general secretary of Zegota, the Polish Council for Jewish Aid whose aim was to rescue Jews from the Holocaust, and Tsetnum, a children's aid society in Warsaw.[1]After the war ended, he became a representative of the Sejm, and in 1947 became chairman of the Central Committee of Polish Jewry.

Jakub Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jakub Berman: Berman was a Polish communist politician, and a member of the Polish United Workers' Party's Politburo where he was in charge of State Security Services (Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), and considered Joseph Stalin's right hand in the People's Republic of Poland between 1944 and 1953.He received a Law degree in 1925 from the Warsaw University, and was an assistant to Marxist sociologist Prof. Ludwik Krzywicki. He was working on the doctoral thesis but was never to finish it. Member of the Communist Youth Union and from 1928 Communist Party of Poland. After the break out of the Polish-German-Soviet War in September 1939, he fled to the Soviet Union-occupied eastern part of Poland, first to Bialystok,

Karel Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Karel Berman: was a Jewish Czech opera singer, composer and opera director.After extensive musical education, Karel Berman started his career as a bass singer of opera in Opava. In March, 1943, Berman was deported to Theresienstadt, where he took part in cultural life as a singer, composer and director. On 11 July 1944, for example, he and Rafael Schächter produced the "Four songs to words of Chinese poetry" by Pavel Haas for the first time. Later he was also imprisoned in Kaufering and Auschwitz. He survived the camps and later became famous as an opera singer. In 1953, he joined the Prague National Theatre opera. Berman is also remembered as an opera director, having directed more than 70 operas[1]. He also as taught at the Prague Conservatory from 1961-1971, and from 1964 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Thijs Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Thijs Berman: is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament.In June 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament. He is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and for the Committee on Budgetary Control. Further he is the chair of the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan.

Lyle Arnold Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lyle Arnold Berman: is a professional poker player and business executive. Berman grew up in Minnesota and attended the University of Minnesota where he graduated in 1964 with a degree in business administration. He then went to work for his father's leather business, Berman Buckskin. When the business was sold to W. R. Grace in 1979, he stayed on as president and CEO. The company was then later sold to the Melville Corporation where it became Wilsons Leather. From 1994 to 2000 he was the chairman and CEO of the Rainforest Cafe chain of restaurant and retail stores.