Lia Koenig

• Name — Lea Koenig • Native Name — * ליא קניג • ליאַ קעניג • Birth Name — Lea Kamien • Born — 30 November 1929 • Birthplace — Łódź, Poland • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1948–present • Education — Bucharest National University of Arts • Spouse — Zvi Hirshl Stolper

Lea Koenig was born in 1929 in Łódź, Poland, to a secular Jewish family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Her parents were the Yiddish actors Dina and Józef Kamień. She spent her childhood in Poland, then in Tashkent, in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Her father was murdered in the Holocaust. In the end of the 1940s, Lea Koenig with her mother emigrated to Romania, where she began studying at National University of Arts in Bucharest and debuted at Jewish Theatre. 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, Russian and Yiddish.

She was the child of Dina Koenig.

Lia Koenig is recorded as having received Israel Prize, Rosenblum Prize and The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture. Recorded at birth as Lea Kamen.