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H. was a member of the Warsaw
Yiddish Artists' Union. He acted in small roles and also
used to participate in the administration of the theatre.
In 1939 he came to Bialystok
with his second wife, who also had acted in the theatre, and
a daughter of twelve years. In order to give the child a
possibility to live, and to find the income for the family,
he had the actor Zalmen Kaleshnikov take her into the
ensemble of the Bialystok State Yiddish Theatre and she was
given the role of "Tevye the Mikman's" youngest daughter.
H. acted in the theatre in
Bialystok and also assisted in the administration. Several
weeks before the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the
troupe traveled to perform in Mogilev. The actors, however,
had left their families in Bialystok. H. was sent by the
actors back to Bialystok for their personal matters and also
for certain theatrical necessities. To H. this proposal came
willingly, having received an opportunity again to see his
family. He arrived in Bialystok precisely at the time of the
outbreak of the Soviet-German war and could no longer leave
the city. A month later he, during the introduction of the
ghetto, was put into it. There, H. worked in a shoe factory
for the German Wehrmacht, and later was killed by the Nazis.
According to Meir Melman and
Sheftel Zak, he was killed in Warsaw.
Sh. E. from Zalmen Kaleshnikov,
Sheftel Zak, Meir Melman and M. E. from Grisha Rotshteyn. |