The daughter of victims of the Holocaust, Karin trained at the Moscow State Jewish Theater during WWII and began performing after the war with her husband, Norbert Horowitz, in a traveling Yiddish theater they created for Holocaust survivors. She immigrated to the US in 1949 and enjoyed a successful career in New York's Yiddish theater scene, later expanding to Broadway and off-Broadway in shows including "The Wall", "Yentl", "A Call on Kuprin", "Scuba Duba" and "The House of Blue Leaves". Karin also made intermittent feature film appearances beginning the 1970s; her most memorable roles
Left the Soviet Union for Germany after parents and other relatives were killed in the Holocaust and she finished her theater studies; served as narrator of the US Information Agency's first documentary about the liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps, "The Mills of Death"
Aided by the US government, Karin and husband Norbert Horowitz founded a traveling Yiddish theater group that performed for Holocaust survivors
1949
Immigrated to the United States; continuing acting career in New York's Yiddish theater scene
1960
Made her Broadway debut in "The Wall"
1971
Made film debut in "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight"
