Herman Bedak, also known as Chaim Eliazer Bedak, was the son of Leib Bedak and Pesha Gordorovsky. He was probably born in Augustów, Poland (or Letvia). He married Dora Feigel Bialystok, who changed her name to Dora Petenbaum. During the First World War, they took the Turkish nationality, which made it possible them for to emigrate to the Netherlands without difficulty.
Herman Bedak worked as a cinema manager in the Netherlands. He worked at Thalia and Alhambra in The Hague, Roxy in Leiden, and Casino and Roxy in The Hague (in that order).
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See also the mention of Herman Bedak on the website Netherlands Cinema History.