potatoes for the Lodz ghetto dwellers. The leader had arranged, from time to time, a production, and both actors may have been a living actively a little, because they didn't have to live life for it."

According to the actor Abraham Kirschenbaum, who also was in the Lodz Ghetto and survived, before Rumkowski ("The Oldest of the Jewish Council of Elders") became the complete shell in the Lodz ghetto, H. was the manager of the meat area in the ghetto, and did his own large favors, literally entertained in his life.

H. and his wife, the actress Regina Lashkovska, as well as their son Israel, were killed by the Nazis. His daughter, Zisl, survived in the Land of Israel.

According to his daughter Zisl Vinik:

"My parents returned from a tour with Jennie Lavitz to Lodz. When the Germans occupied Lodz, the actors asked them if they should go away to Russia. My father made himself up like a Pollack. As a result, he could more easily obtain bread to buy and still managed to save himself from the Germans. Their mother, born in Russia, had a Russian passport, and for a long time they were not touched. Their father had a large Yiddish theatre library, from which he partly attracted his vigor. We lived at Srodmiejska 61. It was winter, and not having anything to do with it, the father was forced to leave the heat on the night of the plays. He used to sing the music of the night, cry and then burn.

In the ghetto we got a non-frills apartment, thanks to the former Vilna Yiddish theatre director Boruch Ass, who had managed apartment sharing. Together with David Beigelman, the father became supervisor in a bakery, then shared potatoes on a plot of land.

Pulaver's information, that the father had 'made theatre,' doesn't agree. On the contrary, he was getting ready to play Anski's 'Dybbuk,' which was not allowed. He refused to agree on theatrical performances because he did not want anyone to 'throw' him into the spirit of repertoire. Initially in 1943, when there was an epidemic of 'amateurs' in the 'shops' and restaurants, he had, together with Nathan Reichenberg, to put on and act in a revue. The first production very much took off. the Jewish Council with 'the eldest Jew,' Rumkowski, came. the father performed in his own monologue, in which he characterized a 'Zander policeman' with a long hand, like a wink on a Chabadnik. Because of this Rumkowski wanted the father to be in charge of the theatre. An official who was, by the way, a certain Shenitsky, when the last became angry with his father, told him to be the director of the Zander Police, who was called to remove the father from the stage in the middle of the play.

Until the liquidation of the ghetto, my parents, together with their two children, tried to endure. In August 1944 the mother was taken. The father did not appear to say goodbye to her, but he did say yes to me with the words, 'My child, we will no longer see each other.'

My brother Israel, at the age of seventeen, was killed.

In the ghetto my father had a big dream: To eat a whole loaf of bread sometimes, with a loaf of bread in your hand.

As I had later heard, he was later asked to work in a crematorium, and he refused. In addition, the German officer received a slap from him, and he shot my father to death. This was in Auschwitz. His murderer was later convicted in Katowice."
 

M.E. from his daughter Zisl Vinik, and Abraham Kirschenbaum.

• "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre," Vol. 1, New York, 1931, p. 638.

• Moshe Pulaver -- "There Was a Ghetto," Tel Aviv, 1963, pp. 59-60.