OrnaVerum
v 7.00.00
23 Jan 2024
updated 23 Jan 2024

On 4 December 2016 at 17:01, Mark Rybak <mrybak@012.net.il> wrote:

Dear Robert,

My name is Mark Rybak. I am originally from Estonia, but from 1972 am living in Israel. And, the most important fact about me is that we were both born the same year!

To finish introduction, I am the creator of the Estonian Jewish museum in Tallinn and the site eja.pri.ee

By now You probably already see the reason for my writing. But first, I would like to congratulate You with really fantastic site, both interesting and wonderfully done and presented.

On my site, in the genealogy section, I have a data base of Estonian Jews. Fenja Beltshikov was of course there, but I had no idea about her fate. However, after talking with some other Beltshikovs in Tallinn (regretfully all dead by now) and with a young generation Beltshikov living in Israel I heard a story about her marriage to Bill in Palestine of those times. Your description of her, by the way, matches what I heard.

I do have one old picture of her in the picture albums section. The picture is from 1929 when she was still in Estonia. If I am not mistaken, she emigrated to Palestine in 1933. eja.pri.ee/Gallery1/displayimage.php?pid=1730 You have to be registered (for free) in order to see the expanded picture and description.

Now, at your site I see two great pictures – one is her portrait and on another she is with Bill and two more people. I would very much appreciate if You could allow me to use these two pictures on my site.

With my best regards, Mark Rybak