Miriam Orleska
Miriam Orleska (born around 1900 in Warsaw ; died 1942 Treblinka extermination camp ) was a Polish stage actress of the Yiddish theater .
Life
Orleska attended high school and in her senior year played the role of David in David Herman's production of Asch's "Mitn shtort". After school she attended the Pedagogical Institute and at the same time secretly the Polish Theater School. In 1919 she joined the Vilna troop . She played numerous leading roles until the group broke up, including Leah in An-ski's Der Dibbuk .
Orleska was the partner of the theater director Mordechai Mazo (1889-1942), with whom she was in the Warsaw ghetto , where she worked in a soup kitchen. They both died in the Treblinka extermination camp after the ghetto was dissolved .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/O/orleska-miriam.htm
- ^ Brigitte Dalinger (editor): Source edition on the history of the Jewish theater in Vienna , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 9783110939583 , p. 223.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Zalmen Zylbercwaig : Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater , Vol. 2, Warsaw, 1934, short biography
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orleska, Miriam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish stage actress of the Yiddish theater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1942 |
| Place of death | Treblinka extermination camp |