Dora Wasserman

Dora Wasserman was an JewishCanadian actress, playwright and theater director.

Wasserman was born in Jytomyr, Soviet Union two years after the Russian Revolution. There she learned about and performed in liveperformance theatres. She was the child of a modest Jewish family. Her father was a locksmith. After studies at the School of singing RimskyKorsakov of Moscow, she entered to the Jewish Theater of Moscow , which she graduated in 1939, afteryears of formation with great masters, including Solomon Mikhoels. With her diploma, Dora Wasserman left Moscow for Ukraine, but World War II forced her to move to Kazakhstan. She made theater tours in Uzbekistan and in Tadjikistan. Here she meet Sam Wasserman, a Polish refugee, whom she married on March 8, 1943. Ella, their first daughter, was born in Jambul on January 19, 1944. They survived the war. Dora Wasserman heard nothing from her family for decades. Sam and Dora Wasserman joined the stream of refugees moving from one transit camp to another, finally arriving in Vienna. At the Rothschild Hospital, Dora Wasserman

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