# Halina Weinstein
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{{Short description|Polish Esperantist (1902–1942)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{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](/source/University_of_Warsaw)
| occupation = teacher, poet, linguist and Esperantist
| years_active = 1921–1942
| employer = [University of Warsaw](/source/University_of_Warsaw)
| organization = Student Esperanto Association
}}
'''Halina Weinstein''' (4 January 1902–1942) was a Polish teacher, poet, linguist and [Esperantist](/source/List_of_Esperanto_speakers). She was murdered by Nazi occupying forces.
== Biography ==
Weinstein was born in [Warsaw](/source/Warsaw) in 1902.[[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.''](/source/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum) Retrieved 28 March 2025.] Her mother Anna Weinstein was also an Esperantist.[{{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 }}]
Weinstein was educated at the [University of Warsaw](/source/University_of_Warsaw)'s Faculty of Philosophy from 1921.[[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.] She was a deputy delegate to the [Universala Esperanto-Asocio](/source/Universal_Esperanto_Association) (UEA).[{{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}}]
Weinstein also headed the publishing department of the Student Esperanto Association and wrote both poetry and prose in Esperanto.[{{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}}][{{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 }}][{{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}}]
[[File:Esperantysci u Slominskiego.jpg|thumb|307x307px|Polish Esperantists, including Weinstein, [Antoni Czubrynski](/source/Antoni_Czubrynski) and [Isaj Dratwer](/source/Isaj_Dratwer) with the [Mayor of Warsaw](/source/List_of_city_mayors_of_Warsaw), [Zygmunt Słomiński](/source/Zygmunt_S%C5%82omi%C5%84ski) in May 1939]]
Esperantists were considered an "anti-Reich element" by the [Nazi Party](/source/Nazi_Party), as "to consider Esperanto merely an [auxiliary language](/source/International_auxiliary_language) for international communication would be incorrect. The artificial language Esperanto is part of Esperantist, the weapon of the Jews."[{{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 }}] Weinstein died in 1942, one of the Nazi murder victims of the occupation of Warsaw.