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R. was born in Vilna, Polish
Lithuania. He completed a real gymnasium. He began to
act in Yiddish theatre at the end of his twentieth or at
the start of the thirtieth year. In 1936, together with
his wife Minnie Boyrns, he acted in the Yiddish Folks
Theatre (Buzgan, Rivka Schiller, the Nathan family, Lisa Shlosberg, Chaim Nisentsveyg, Mietek Rotshteyn, Yakov
Kurlender et al) in Lemberg, then in Vilna, later with
Dzigan and Shumacher. In 1939 again he was with Dzigan
and Shumacher in Vilna.
During the outbreak of the
Second World War he went away to the Soviet Union, and
there became sick and was killed in Vilna. The troupe that acted there
now went off to Bialystok, which became the base for the Yiddish troupes. His wife, who was
with the troupe in Bialystok, came in [iuln im zen] and
returned to traveling.
When R. already was feeling
better and wanted to travel to his wife in Bialystok, an
epidemic broke out, and people were no longer leaving
from the city. Meanwhile Vilna was captured from the
Germans and he had, as the other Yiddish population had
to, go into the ghetto. A woman, who was saved from the
Hitler hell, had later told his wife that there he had
given over him his things before led away to the gas
ovens. Other versions said that he together with Khatriel Broyda and Shapiro were killed in Klage, near
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