Kurt Gerron
Acting•Born May 11, 1897•Died October 30, 1944 (age 47)•Berlin, Germany
Biography
Kurt Gerron (born Kurt Gerson; 11 May 1897 – 30 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He had a very successful career in cabaret and film before World War II, but was then forbidden to work and was sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto after the Nazis had occupied the Netherlands, where he and his family had fled to. In 1944 he was forced by the Nazis to make the propaganda film Theresienstadt: A Documentary Film from the Jewish Settlement Area, before he and his wife, Olga Gerson-Meyer, were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. The film was completed not long before the end of the war, but was never shown to the public, and only fragments remain.
Known For
Filmography
Personal Info
DepartmentActing
BirthdayMay 11, 1897
Day of DeathOctober 30, 1944
Place of BirthBerlin, Germany
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