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NUMBER 17
APRIL 25,1991
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MUSEUM ACQUIRES COSTUMES
Great Yiddish actress to be
represented by costumes
Ida Kaminska was perhaps
the best known Yiddish stage
actress in pre-Holocaust Eu-'
rope, and she wort even greater fame (and an Academy
Award nomination) for her
rple in the 1967 film, The shop
on Main Street Two of the
famed performer's stage costumes have been added to the
permanent collection of A Living Memorial to ;the Holo-
eaust-Museuin'.of Jewish Hen-'
tage.-
The two costumes were created in the mid 1960s in the
workshop of the Kaminska
Yiddish Theater in Warsaw.
Made of silk, they were worn
by Kaminska in the role of
Mirele Efros, one of her best
known characterizations.;
Mirele Efros, the play, was
written by the Yiddish dramatist Jacob Gqrdin, and the title
role was performed by both
Ida Kaminska and her mother, the equally famous Esther
Rokhl Kaminska.
Ida Kaminska wore the two'
costumes in  production of
Mirele \Efros at the Yiddish
State Theater in Warsaw, at
the Billy Rose Theater in New
York  and  while  touring
throughout Canada. The designs are based on the originals created for Esther Rokhl.
Kaminska at the turn of the ,
century.
"I believe that my mother's
contribution to Yiddish cul
ture was tremendous," commented Ruth Turkow Kaminska. "To her, these costumes were of great importance. Mirele Efros was the
role my grandmother originated in Europe. It is the role
most closely associated with
the Kaminska family. The
costumes;" she added, "evoke-
the attitude of the Kaminskas
toward portraying a Jewish
character, to show that character's nobility and to uplift
the audience as well."
Ida Kaminska, in the course
of a career that spanned the
20th century, was an actress,
director, producer, theater
manager, acting teacher, and
idol of generations of theater
goers. Born into a close knit
theatrical family, she was a
Star of the Yiddish stage in
Warsaw when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939;
- Fleeing first to Lvov and
then to Central Asia, Ida Kaminska and her troupe spent
the war years traveling
throughout the Soviet Union
performing for Jewish refugees. Returning to Poland in
1946, she established, and
earned government recognition for, the "Yiddish State
Theater,? with which she
toured Israel, North and South
America and western Europe.
With the outbreak of a vicious
government-sponsored campaign of anti-Semitism in 1968,
Ida Kaminska left Poland for
the United States. She remained active on stage, dividing her time between New
York and Israel, until her
death in 1980.
Ruth Turkow Kaminska
was a 19-year-old actress in
her mother's company in 1939.
She fled with the troupe to the
Soviet Union, but was arrested and charged with treason
at the war's end. Imprisoned
for five years and-then exiled
to Siberia, Ruth Turkow Ka-
miiiska was later repatriated
to Poland. She is now an
American citizen living in
NevvYoifc.
A Living Memorial to the
Holocailst-Museum of Jewish
Heritage, which is scheduled
to open in 1992, will be New
York's principal public memorial to the six million Jews
murdered" during the Holocaust. The museum is being
created under the auspices of
the New York Holocaust Memorial Commission and will
be constructed in Battery
Park City, on the Manhattan
shoreline opposite the Statue
of Liberty and Ellis Island.
With a central programmatic focus on public education, the museum will address
four main themes: The World
Before, the European and
North African Jewish culture
and civilization that had
thrived for two millennia before the devastation by the-
Nazis; The Holocaust, as it
was experienced by the Jews
who perished and by those
who escaped or survived; The
Aftermath, survival and new
lives, including the plight of
refugees in post-war Europe,
the establishment of die State
of Israel and the pursuit of
Nazi war criminals,and Jewish Immigration to the United
States since 1654, encompassing the Jewish contribution to
American society, as well as
the consequent transplantation and transformation of
Jewish culture and civilization
as it became part of the
American world.
The museum's completed
facilities will encompass permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, a computerized interactive Learning Center, a Memorial Hall, an auditorium, an education wing, a
sculpture terrace, museum
shop, dining facility and administrative offices and workshops. The museum is expected to attract more than 500,000
visitors annually.