Ruzha Fuchs
Actor, Person
1890 –
Who is Ruzha Fuchs?
Ruzha Fuchs, was a Yiddish theater actress. Born in Lwów, Poland. She entered the chorus of a Polish-language theater as she didn't know much Yiddish, but through connections was taken into the Yiddish theater chorus a month later. The director, Adolf Gimpel, was favorable impressed and cast her as Yitskhok in Abraham Goldfaden's Akeydos Yitskhok. After a few months in Lwów, she was engaged in Rumania and then Chernovets, as a soubrette - and she became der libling fun teater-oylem. After three years she returned to Lwów.
In 1915 she played in the Polish-language Bagatela miniature theater. In 1917 she starred in Pinsk, now Belarus. She and character actor Yakov Fuchs were the parents of the famous Polish-American actor Leo Fuchs. After divorcing Yakov she remarried to the actor Georg Rot. Soon after Molly Picon ended her tour in Lwów, Róża took over her roles in Yankele and Tsipke Fayer.
In 1939 Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia both invaded Poland, starting World War II. The Soviet Red Army took Lwów, and a new Yiddish theater took over the Koloseum theater. Fuchs and her second husband played there. In 1941 Germany attacked Soviet Russia and took Lwów. Some members of the theater troupe, including Róża, were trapped in Równe and sent to the ghetto, where Róża was shot dead by Germans.
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- Born
- 1890
Lviv - Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- Ukraine
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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