Born in 1875 in Peterburg,
Russia. At the age of thirteen she entered into work in
a factory, early on as a lern-meydl, then as a
worker. W. early on became attracted to and joined the
revolutionary movement. She completed a feldsher course,
working in this profession in an entire series of cities,
while directing at the same time societal activity.
W. proved to be very
successful in her youth, when she used to on the worker-maiaukes
performed with lectures or participated in amateur
productions. In 1919, when the Jewish commissariat in
the former Petrograd was interested in creating a Jewish
state theatre, W. did not look her forty-four years, and
she joined the studio and then became a professional
actress.
On 8 April 1934 W. passed
away.
In the necrology in "Emes,"
it is stated by S. Mikhoels and B. Zuskin:
"For the entire fifteen
years, H. Weiner has worked in our theatre, [where] she
manifested her .... and strong attitude for the work and
a serious attitude in everything that she created. These
qualities prevented her until her last days of her life,
when it was from a difficult heart ailment, she had not
suffered, and she worked with the the latest forces of
the stage. A day before her death, not looking upon her
very difficult condition, she had small, uprooted ? [eyngeshrumpene
altitshke], with a stubbornness that she
experienced during this last production until, as we had
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