Betsis (Betzis) (Feygina) Matilda Semyonovna (7.05.1935, Vinnitsa) - philologist.

Matilda Betsis was born into the family of a clerk Semyon Solomonovich Feigin (1910, Chernigov region - 1973, Riga) and a musician Polina Iosifovna Feigina (Dovbinshtein) (1916, Vinnitsa). In 1941 she was evacuated to Ufa (Bashkirian SSR). In 1943 shemoved with her family to Moscow. After the war for family reasons Matilda Betsis moved to Riga, where she graduated from secondary school No. 22 (1954) and then from the Leningrad State University (1959). She was dependent on her parents (1959-1962), worked as a librarian at the Soviet Trade Technical School (1962-1964), worked as a literature teacher at the LSU preparatory courses (1964-1965), was a librarian at the specialised vocational school No. 13 (1965-1968), worked as a methodologist at Nodsnab (1968-1973).

In marriage with Naum Isaakovich Betsis (1935, Odessa) a son Ilya Naumovich Betsis was born (1960), who was adopted by Matilda’s parents in 1972. Since that time he has been Feigin Ilya Semyonovich.

In 1973 Matilda Betsis received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her father's aunt Zuler (Feigin) Zahava Borisovna (1904) had lived since 1945.

Family members

Semyon Solomonovich Feigin(1910-1973) - father

Polina Iosifovna Feigina (Dovbinshtein)(1916) - mother

Tamara Semyonovna Livshits (Feygina) (1937) - sister

Naum Isaakovich Betsis (937) - husband (divorced in 1965)

Zahava Borisovna Zuler (Feygina) (1904) - father's aunt