Rachel Holzer

Rachel Holzer (Yiddish: רחל האָלצער; 1899 – November 14, 1998) was an internationally acclaimed Australian Jewish theatre actress and director.

Her mother was a home maker and her father was a house painter who led the local Yiddish Workers’ Union.

[2] She appeared in Di Emese Kraft a play by the Russiam American playwright Jacob Gordin when she was six.

One of her most important performances was in 1966 when she recited Yevgeny's Yevtushenko's Babi Yar in poetry.

He was there as she performed his poem for 6,000 people which told how thousands of Jews had been massacred by the Nazis.