Halina Weinstein

Halina Weinstein was a Polish teacher, poet, linguist and List of [Esperanto speakers|Esperantist]. She was murdered by Nazi occupying forces.

Biography

Weinstein was born in Warsaw in 1902. Her mother Anna Weinstein was also an Esperantist.
Weinstein was educated at the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Philosophy from 1921. After graduating, she taught Esperanto courses for students of the University. She was a deputy delegate to the Universala Esperanto-Asocio.
Weinstein also headed the publishing department of the Student Esperanto Association and wrote both poetry and prose in Esperanto.
File:Esperantysci u Slominskiego.jpg|thumb|307x307px|Polish Esperantists, including Weinstein, Antoni Czubrynski and Isaj Dratwer with the List of [city mayors of Warsaw|Mayor of Warsaw], Zygmunt Słomiński in May 1939
Esperantists were considered an "anti-Reich element" by the Nazi Party, as "to consider Esperanto merely an auxiliary language for international communication would be incorrect. The artificial language Esperanto is part of Esperantist, the weapon of the Jews." Weinstein died in 1942, one of the Nazi murder victims of the occupation of Warsaw.