According to David Rogow, he was born circa 1911 in Vilna, Polish Lithuania.

His parents were bakery owners.

There D. worked until he became a professional actor and performed in various Yiddish troupes. During the Soviet Occupation of Vilna, he acted in the Vilna Yiddish State Theatre and afterwards in the Vilna Ghetto.

Sh. Katsherginski remarked that he was led away to Estonia, where he was killed. His wife (Musya Rekhes) and their child were killed at Majdanek.

In the introduction of his brother Herman Kruk's book "Togbukh fun vilner geto", Pinchas Schwartz writes that for/of a saved of camp[kloge] in Estonia, he was caught, that among those who were killed in the sheyter-hoyfns by the camp were also found actors Shabtai Blyakher and Dubinsky.
 

Sh. E. from David Rogow.

• Sh. Katsherginski -- "The Destruction of Vilna", New York, 1947, p. 238.

• C. Kruk -- "Tagbukh fun vilner geto", New York, 1961, p. 15.