Halina Weinstein
{{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
| 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.[https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=6964972 Halina Weinstein]. 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=http://web.archive.org/web/20241127094050/https://dlibra.kul.pl/dlibra/publication/48292/edition/43548/content |archive-date=2024-11-27 |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=dlibra.kul.pl}}
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.[http://www.plansprachen.ch/Esperanto_Polen.pdf Polen: Esperanto-Propaganda in eigener Sache und im Sog der Politik.] Unabhängige Schweizer Interlinguistische Studien. Retrieved 28 March 2025. She was a deputy delegate to the Universala Esperanto-Asocio (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}}{{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 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."{{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}} Weinstein died in 1942, one of the Nazi murder victims of the occupation of Warsaw.
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Category:Polish women educators