User:Davidovichovich/Jonas Turkow

Jonas Turkow born in 1898 in Poland, died in 1987  in Tel Aviv, Israel. Actor, stage manager, director and writer.

Brother of the actor Zygmunt Turkow, actor and writer Icchak Turkow and the journalist Marek Turkow, husband of the famous actres Diana Blumenfeld. Prisoner of Warsaw Ghetto 1940-43, later member of  the polish underground AK (National Army). After the war, as a member of the Central Jewish Comitee of Poland, investigated 18 cases of Jewish collaborators with German Gestapo. Since 1950 in Israel.

Jonas Turkow has performed in the movies as an actor:


 * "Tkies khaf" (1924)
 * "Lamedvovnik" (1925)
 * "Huragan" (1928)
 * "Mlody las" (1934).

Jonas Turkow was a movie director:
 * "In die poylishe velder" (1929)

Jonas Turkow as a writer


 * Turkow, Jonas. O levante do gueto de Varsovia / Jonas Turkow; tradução, Ayala Ehrlich. – São Paulo: Federação Israelita do Estado de São Paulo, 1975 Mifaley Tarbut ve-Hinukh Tel Awiw 1969 Jonas Turkow
 * Jonas Turkow: In Kamf farn Lebn, Buenos Aires, 1949,
 * Jonas Turkow: Azoi iz es Geven, Buenos Aires, 1948,
 * Jonas Turkow:"Nokh der befrayung – zikhroynes" [Yiddish], Buenos Aires 1959
 * Jonas Turkow: "Farloshene shtern" [Yiddish], 1953
 * Jonas Turkow: "Teater un Konsertn in die Getos un Konstentratsye Lagern," in Yidisher Teater in Yirope…Poilen. Nowy Jork, (1968). Knight Publishing.
 * Jonas Turkow ( Ionas Turkov): C'était ainsi. 1939-1943 la vie dans le ghetto de Varsovie. Paris: Austral, 1995
 * Jonas Turkow: "This is How It Was…", published. By the Association of Polish Jews in Argentina, 1948 (529 pages)