Background
Lea Koenig was born in 1929 in Łódź, Poland, to a Polish Jewish family, the daughter of the Yiddish actors Dina and Józef Kamien.
Lea Koenig was born in 1929 in Łódź, Poland, to a Polish Jewish family, the daughter of the Yiddish actors Dina and Józef Kamien.
In 1961, she emigrated to Israel. Primarily acting in Hebrew, Koenig performs in Israel and all over the world also in Yiddish theaters. She speaks English, Hebrew, German, Polish, Romanian and Yiddish.
She spent her childhood in Poland, then in Tashkent, in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.