Klara Segałowicz
Klara Segałowicz (born August 25, 1897 in Kiev , Russian Empire , † 1943 in Warsaw ) was a Polish-Jewish actress who became known in the prewar Jewish film and theater.
Life
Segałowicz was born in Kiev as Klara Borodino into a Jewish family. Your father was a doctor and your mother, Ruchla nee. Borodino, was a midwife in Tomaszów Mazowiecki. The family moved to Tomaszów Mazowiecki in 1911 . There she made her debut in a series of amateur theatrical performances by director Shmuel Binem Orenbach (born April 8, 1893). In 1921 she moved to Warsaw. In 1922 she married the Jewish writer Zusman Segałowicz (1884-1949), from whom she divorced after only eighteen months. She quickly became successful. In the 1930s she became a star of cinema and Jewish theater. Your mother, Ruchla b. Borodino, was a midwife in Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
During the Second World War she came to the Warsaw Ghetto , where she worked as a secretary. There she was arrested, imprisoned for a long time in Pawiak prison and shot there in 1943. Her second husband Leon (Lejba) Neustadt (born 1883) was a lecturer at the Jewish teacher training college and the director of the Joint Distribution Committee and was also murdered in Pawiak.
Filmography
- 1925: Lamed wow
- 1929: In the poylishe velder
- 1936: Al Khet
literature
- Zalmen Zylbercwaig : Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater , Vol. 2, Warsaw, 1934, short biography on page 1508
Web links
- Klara Segalowicz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ W masce i inscribed maski.
- ↑ http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/S/segalowitch-clara-V2.htm
- ↑ Barbara Engelking, Jacek Leociak: The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City . Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-11234-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Götz Aly , Wolf Gruner, Klaus-Peter Friedrich, Susanne Heim, Federal Archives (Germany), University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Chair for Modern and Modern History: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 ; Oldenbourg, 2011, p. 298.
- ^ Yitzhak Zuckerman, Barbara S. Harshav: A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ; 1993, p. 272.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Segałowicz, Klara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Segałowicz, Clara; Borodino (maiden name); Segalowitch, Clara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1943 |
| Place of death | Warsaw , Poland |