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Orna Porat was born in as Irena Klein in Cologne, Germany, to a German non-Jewish family.

As a young adult, she read Thomas Mann, Franz Werfel, and Bertolt Brecht and discovered the truth about the atrocities of the Nazi regime. After the war, she met her husband and they immigrated to Palestine. Despite her lack of money and Hebrew language skills, Porat worked hard to break into the world of Israeli theater, going to many auditions and facing rejection.

She eventually found her place at the Cameri Theater and rose to prominence. Orna Porat Irene Klein was born on June 6, , in Cologne, Germany, to her father Willi, an accountant who instilled in her a love of nature, and her mother, Elise, a lover of the arts who had to give up her career in order to raise the children. Though her father was a Catholic and her mother a Protestant, the adolescent Porat chose neither, but instead became an atheist interested in socialist ideas.

She attended primary school in Cologne and high school in Porz, a city to which the family moved when she was ten. Her parents did not treat her desire seriously and her father even objected to it, but she insisted and applied to the Opera, where a small role became vacant. She won the role due to her claim that she knew how to sing and dance, though she had no experience of either.

Orna Porat (Hebrew: אורנה פורת; June 6, – August 6, ) was a German-born Israeli theater actress.

Having no theater experience, she arrived only a quarter of an hour before the performance. She was immediately dressed in a costume, shoes, and wig that did not at all fit her, hastily made up, and told what was her entrance cue—which she missed. After graduating from high school in , she studied for two years at a drama school in Cologne and while still a student was cast in theater performances.

Upon completing her studies she began her career on the professional stage with a one-year contract at a repertory theater in Schleswig on the Danish border, which presented a different play every two weeks. During the two years she spent there, she became acquainted with the writings of Thomas Mann and Franz Werfel and the poetry and plays of Bertolt Brecht and discovered the truth about the atrocities of the Nazi regime.

In the theaters closed and the male members of her company were conscripted into the German army, while the women worked in factories and in casual employment. Her experiences during this time led to her decision to leave Germany at the end of the war.