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Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre
BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE WHO WERE ONCE INVOLVED IN THE Yiddish THEATRE;
aS FEATURED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S  "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"


VOLUME 5: THE KDOYSHIM (MARTYRS) EDITION, 1967, Mexico City
 


 

Sonia Ludner
(Kuritska)


S. was born in 1899 in Vilna, Polish Lithuania, into a Chasidic family.

Her father was a cantor and a teacher.

In addition, her mother was a teacher of Hebrew in a local Hebrew gymnasium.

In the family there were many learned people and scholars.

[Bet] Sam Ludner, who was connected with the Yiddish theatre, came to study in Vilna. He was introduced to Sonia and they were married in 1916. She performed in the troupes of Zandberg, Kompaneyets, Samberg, Zayderman-Kutner. At the end of the third year, she withdrew from the theatre.

In 1942 the Nazis, together with other Yiddish actors, deported them to Treblinka, where in 1943 she was killed.

Her daughter Molly (Lazar) was saved and was found herself in America.


Sh. E. from Molly Ludner-Lazar.

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 5, page 4783.
 

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