Nadia Radin
Sh. Bliacher in his book "Eyn un
tsvantsik un eyner" writes:
"Born in Vilna to well-to-do parents. Her father for a long time
was director of a Polish miniature theatre and movie theatre
owner. When she was a child, the small Nadinka was entered into
the Vilna dance studio of Helena Lakevitsh. She turned out
to be a very talented student. At a very young age, she began
appearing before the public; prior as a student, and later as an
independent dancer in various dance ensembles. Together with her
teacher Lakevitsh, she went on a tour across the world, all the
way to Greece. After returning she performed with a dance
illustrations in various Yiddish theatre productions.
Among others, in Zygmunt Turkow's
offering of "Shabse Zvi," in 1925, in the Vilna City Hall. Hater
for a long time she excelled in the dance "Morpheus," where she
manifested many expressions and actorial understanding.
Performing in Polish revues, besides dance, she also attempted a
little singing, later touring across cities and towns in Poland,
where she also performed in night locales.
In Lublin the actors of a Yiddish
itinerant troupe were convinced that she should join them in
their ensemble. She tried besides dance, acting in small roles
in various melodramas. Her face often covered for her weak
performances. Having a routine of dance performances, she easily
lives alone in the environment of the theatre and gradually
becomes quite a sympathetic actress. True, her life becomes a
little difficult. In the Yiddish theatre you do not earn as well
as in night locales as a dancer. The locomotion conditions were
also very difficult. Often coming out for miles to get by with
an act, but all this changes the warm Jewish environment, always
among their own. Along the way, she meets up with an itinerant
troupe with the artist Moshe Zelver, and in one morning they set
a canopy for the Lodz rabbi.
With the outbreak of the
Polish-German war, Radina with her husband traipsed over to
Vilna. Worked to bits in the revue theatre 'Remikat,' and in the
State Theatre . When the Germans entered Vilna, one of the first
that was taken was her husband Moshe Zelver, leaving her in
circumstances. She entered the ghetto with a two watchful, wispy
hands. Here she went through the 'zip' period,' from one ghetto
to another, you were thrown out with the child, until she was
unable to fight due to exhaustion. Her fate is unknown. From the
second ghetto the young mother and child went on their last
walk"...
Sh. Kacerginski in his book "The
Destruction of Vilna" remarked that in 1941 she was killed in
Ponar.
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Sh. Kacerginski -- "Khurbn
vilne," New York, 1947, p. 232.
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Sh. Bliacher -- "Eyn un
tsvantsik un eyner," New York, 1962, pp. 61-62.
