ERWEST, Ida

Ida Erwest (born Ida Ajerwajs) was an influential Polish-Jewish singer, comedy actress, dancer, and composer. She was the author of popular stage songs.
She began her artistic career as a chorister and dancer in a Jewish theater. During World War I, she was noticed by Salomon Kustin , a popular actor from the United States and organizer of Jewish cabaret in Poland, who hired her to join his traveling cabaret company. Their performances, as part of a tour of territories occupied by German and Austrian forces, were extremely popular.
During the occupation, she was in the Warsaw ghetto, where she died at the end of the war.