Born circa 1905 in Brisk,
Polish Lithuania, where she continuously lived with her
family. She debuted in a local amateur group under the
direction of Misha Sarver, then was a professional
actress in the troupe of Julius Adler. According to
Jonas Turkow, she was touring for a long time with him
and his troupe across the province. According to Itzhak
Perlov, she had finished her stage career in 1938-39,
when she toured with Lola Folman's troupe and acted in
his play "Goldene zangen."
Itzhak Perlov characterizes
her as such:
"A good and very useful actress with a tremendous love
for the theatre. She has acted in mother roles,
character roles, lover and comical [roles], but
factually she was a dramatic actress. She hadn't sung or
danced".
According to Zalmen
Koleshinkov, she was very lovely and a very good friend,
a sympathetic person, a great Bohemian when the Soviet
government had created the "Bavelekhe Jewish Theatre for
the Western Field", and she had acted there and was
captured by the Germans in Slonim, where the theatre had
a base. About her destruction, here are two versions:
"One is that she was killed by the Nazis in Slonim. A
second is that she had from there was shown to have fled
from her family in Brisk, and there was killed.
Itzhak Perlov observed that
it isn't determined where and when she was killed, but
it is known that the Brisk Jewish population did not
leave the city, but was shot in Brisk itself, onto very
large piles, and there buried into a mass grave.
Sh. E. from Zalmen Koleshnikov.
M. E. from
Itzhaik Perlov, Jonas Turkow, Meir Melman and Sheftel
Zak.
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