Szymon Szurmiej Passed Away
Polish-Jewish actor, director and general manager of the Esther Rachela and Ida Kamińska Jewish Theater in Warsaw died today at the age of 91.
Szymon Szurmiej was born on 18 June 1923 in Lutsk, in Volhynian Voivoideship at that time and in today’s Ukraine.
Szurmiej has produced numerous theatre adaptations of Jewish classics – S. Ansky, I. L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem and Abraham Goldfaden.
In 2004 he became an Honorary Citizen of Warsaw.
Szymon Szurmiej was a member and activist of different Jewish organizations in Poland as well as worldwide.
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