Halina Weinstein

{{Infobox person | image = Halina Weinstein.jpg | caption = Halina Weinstein in May 1939 | birth_date = 4 January 1902 | birth_place = Warsaw, Poland | death_date = 1942 | death_place = Poland | alma_mater = University of Warsaw | occupation = teacher, poet, linguist and Esperantist | years_active = 1921–1942 | employer = University of Warsaw | organization = Student Esperanto Association }}

'''Halina Weinstein''' (4 January 1902–1942) was a Polish teacher, poet, linguist and Esperantist. She was murdered by Nazi occupying forces.

== Biography == Weinstein was born in Warsaw in 1902.<ref name=":0">[https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=6964972 Halina Weinstein] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250113072638/https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=6964972 |date=13 January 2025 }}. ''United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.'' Retrieved 28 March 2025.</ref> Her mother Anna Weinstein was also an Esperantist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biuletyn Księgi Adresowej Esperantystów Polskich i Praktyczny Informator Esperancki = Bulteno de la Adreslibro de Pollandaj Esperantistoj kaj Praktika Informilo pri Esperanto. Rok 1, zeszyt 1 (lipiec 1935) – Digital Library KUL |url=https://dlibra.kul.pl/dlibra/publication/48292/edition/43548/content |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127094050/https://dlibra.kul.pl/dlibra/publication/48292/edition/43548/content |archive-date=27 November 2024 |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=dlibra.kul.pl |url-status=live }}</ref>

Weinstein was educated at the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Philosophy from 1921.<ref name=":0" /> After graduating, she taught Esperanto courses for students of the University.<ref>[http://www.plansprachen.ch/Esperanto_Polen.pdf Polen: Esperanto-Propaganda in eigener Sache und im Sog der Politik.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027090040/https://www.plansprachen.ch/Esperanto_Polen.pdf |date=27 October 2022 }} ''Unabhängige Schweizer Interlinguistische Studien.'' Retrieved 28 March 2025.</ref> She was a deputy delegate to the Universala Esperanto-Asocio (UEA).<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Revue_esperanto_internacio/zaKCDPBxQj0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Halina+Weinstein&dq=Halina+Weinstein&printsec=frontcover |title=Revue esperanto internacio |date=1929 |pages=15 |language=eo}}</ref>

Weinstein also headed the publishing department of the Student Esperanto Association and wrote both poetry and prose in Esperanto.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bujwid |first=Odo |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Osamotnienie/KwnPAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Halina+Weinstein&dq=Halina+Weinstein&printsec=frontcover |title=Osamotnienie: pamiętniki z lat 1932–1942 |date=1990 |publisher=Wydawn. Literackie |isbn=978-83-08-01810-1 |pages=130 |language=pl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sutton |first=Geoffrey |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Concise_Encyclopedia_of_the_Original_Lit/-Z_8CG9g2jIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Halina+Weinstein&pg=PA37&printsec=frontcover |title=Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, 1887–2007 |date=2008 |publisher=Mondial |isbn=978-1-59569-090-6 |pages=37 |language=en |archive-date=11 April 2025 |access-date=28 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250411014904/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Concise_Encyclopedia_of_the_Original_Lit/-Z_8CG9g2jIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Halina+Weinstein&pg=PA37&printsec=frontcover |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Slowo_%C5%BCydowskie/KgwtAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Halina+Weinstein&dq=Halina+Weinstein&printsec=frontcover |title=Slowo żydowskie |date=2000 |publisher=Towarzystwa Społeczno-Kulturalnego Żydów w Polsce |pages=15 |language=pl}}</ref> [[File:Esperantysci u Slominskiego.jpg|thumb|307x307px|Polish Esperantists, including Weinstein, Antoni Czubrynski and Isaj Dratwer with the 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."<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Lins |first=Ulrich |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Dangerous_Language_Esperanto_under_Hitle/LgcbDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Halina+Weinstein&pg=PA127&printsec=frontcover |title=Dangerous Language — Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin |date=2017-02-10 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-54917-4 |pages=127, 131 |language=en |archive-date=11 April 2025 |access-date=28 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250411014847/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Dangerous_Language_Esperanto_under_Hitle/LgcbDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Halina+Weinstein&pg=PA127&printsec=frontcover |url-status=live }}</ref> Weinstein died in 1942, one of the Nazi murder victims of the occupation of Warsaw.<ref name=":1" />

== References == {{reflist}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Weinstein, Halina}} Category:1902 births Category:1942 deaths Category:Polish Esperantists Category:20th-century Polish women educators Category:20th-century Polish women poets Category:University of Warsaw alumni Category:Polish people who died in the Holocaust