Given name: Mordechaj Family name: Mazo (4)

(1)

a former director of a Jewish theatre in Vilna

(2)

former director of a theatre in Vilna, at activists' meeting; in the kitchen's sector; works as a clerk; in administration of Orla Street No. 6; in the council of CKI (Central Commission for Entertainments); active in YIKOR (the Jewish Cultural Organization)

(3)

before the war he was the head of the Wilenska Trupa theatre /?/; he got to the Warsaw ghetto, where he was very active in an underground culture organisation YIKOR (the Jewish Cultural Organization), despite he was 70. He was one of those who wrote an appeal to Jews to support actively Jewish schools in the ghetto.

(4)

before the war he was the director of the 'Wilenska Trupa'. During the ghetto period he was already over 60 years old. He turned out to be a talented and perfect speaker and lecturer. He was the main performer, a person who gave shape to the ideas of organisers of the cultural life in the ghetto (Linder Menachem), an executor of plans and programmes. He was a person of theatre, a celerity of Jewish drama. He died at the end of the ghetto existance. In the winter months of 1942/1943 he vegetated in some office of a social department of the Judenrat. With his last wife, the actress Ester Goldenberg, he survived the January Action. They both moved to some shop. According to the information from the volume II of the Ringelblum's notes, they both died during the uprising in the ghetto, in the central ghetto.

(1)

Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum; Emanuel Ringelblum’s work was edited and translated into English by Jacob Sloan, and published in New York by McGraw-Hill Book Company, cop. 1958 under the title Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'Journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum

(1) [73], (2) 35,63, 83, 85,200, 210, (3) str.132,145,157, (4) s.185,252,253