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S. was born in 1898 in
Vilna, Russian Lithuania. A close relative of actor
Noach Nachbush, through him he became one of the first
members of the Vilna Troupe, where he worked as an
assistant director and also participated as an actor.
According to his daughter
Sonia, he was a talented actor, and when the fate
didn't not connect him with the "Vilner", he won for
himself a position as a distinguished actor, but in the
shadow of those great artists of the troupe, who had won a
worldwide acclaim for themselves, he was only associated
as the assistant director that was ready for the stage
to act only from time to time.
Sh. made all the prices and
divisions for the Vilna Troupe, until the complete
falling apart
of the troupe in Europe. Afterwards he had been
associated with the theatre ensemble under the
leadership of Alexander Granach, Kurt Ktsh and "Di
yidishe bande", often times at the price of hunger and
not being able to give his wife and two children the
minimum of [hyunh].
During the Second World War
Sh. was captured in Warsaw. Both children were away in
Russia, where the son, Leon, was killed. Sh., who was
from the famous [pkhdim] in the Yiddish theatre, had
feared of being pulled out from home. He suggested that,
if he was sitting in his home and wasn't noticed by the
Nazis, they will forget about him, but in the end
others, [aiz ot dem pkhdn] came
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