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FACES IN VENGROV:
The Ptak and Nortman Families and Their Friends



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(1) RUCHEL PTAK, mother of Hersh Isak Ptak and two other sons.


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(2) FAMILY OF HERSH ISAK AND TSIVYA NORTMAN PTAK (1927)
Front row, l-r: female Nortman (niece of Tsivya Nortman Ptak),
Rivim Ptak, Pesach Ptak, Chaika Ptak. Back row: Chiel Nortman
(nephew of Tsivya Nortman Ptak), Leibl Ptak, Tsivya
Nortman Ptak, and (seated) Hersh Isak Ptak.
For the Ptaks' story, click here and here.


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(3) FAMILIES OF TSIVYA NORTMAN PTAK AND CHAIM NORTMAN (1935)
Front row (l-r): Nortman son, Tsivya Nortman Ptak, Pesach Ptak, Chaim
Nortman, Nortman daughter, Mrs. Nortman, Nortman son. The little girl with
the muffler is Srul Usha Ptak's daughter (granddaughter of Tsivya Nortman
Ptak. Back row: Leibl Ptak, Chiel Nortman, Rivim Ptak, Chaika Ptak.
(4) Rivim and Pesach Ptak with their niece (the daughter of their brother
Srul Usha Ptak; her name is unknown) (Vengrov, 1935)


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CHILDREN OF HERSH ISAK PTAK and TSIVYA NORTMAN PTAK
(5) First row (l-r): Rivim, Pesach; back row (l-r) Leibl, Chaika (1929)
(6) First row (l-r): Rivim, Pesach; back row (l-r): Leibl, Chaika (1930)


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(7) Tsivyah Ptak with her sons Pesach and Rivim (ca. 1935)


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(8) FAMILIES OF CHAIM NORTMAN and SRUL USHA PTAK
Chaim Nortman is seated in the center and his family is to his left.
Seated on the far right is Ruchel Ptak, wife of Srul Usha Ptak.
Her daughter is seated on her lap and her sister and mother are behind her.
The identity of the standing man holding a child is not known. (ca. 1935)


Ptak Moshe

(9) Chaika Ptak, daughter of Hersh Isak Ptak and
Tsivya Nortman, with her boyfriend Michal Zewica(1935)
(10) Moshe Ptak, son of Hersh Isak Ptak and his first wife


Michel Chiel

(11) Michel Klenchman, friend of Leo Ptak
(12) Chiel Nortman (son of Chaim Nortman), with
Clara Ptak's boyfriend Michal Zewica on the left (1938)




Credits: Text and page design copyrighted © 2008 by Helene Kenvin. Photographs 2-5 copyrighted © 2008 by Paul Ptak. Photographs 1, 6-12 copyrighted © Leo Ptak. Page created by Helene Kenvin. All rights reserved.