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Jan 8, 2016 · Film producer Meyer Gottlieb ('Master and Commander') has found more urgency in sharing his story in recent years: "The truth of the matter is that the weapons of massive destruction are not...
Meyer Gottlieb is known for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Guys and Dolls.
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- 10 Robert Clary—Singer, Writer, & Actor
- 9 Meyer Gottlieb—Producer
- 8 Imre Kertész—Novelist
- 7 Ivan Klíma—Playwright
- 6 Curt Lowens—Actor
- 5 Branko Lustig—Producer
- 4 Roman Polanski—Director
- 3Leon Prochnik—Screenwriter
- 2 Ruth Westheimer—Sex Therapist
- 1 Simon Wiesenthal—Writer & Nazi Hunter
Robert Clary was born Robert Max Wilderman in Paris, France, back in 1926. He began a life in showbusiness early on, having started singing professionally on French radio at the age of 12. By 1942, he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Ottmuth, Poland. He didn’t remain there for too long, and soon after his forearm was tattooed “A5714,”...
Meyer Gottlieb was born shortly after Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Though his memories of his early childhood during the war are limited, the ones he has retained are unpleasant, to say the least. “I have no memories of joyous events. The first real memories of a childhood I have are after I came to America.” The Gottlieb family fled their home ...
Imre Kertész was born in Budapest in 1929, where he later attended boarding school in a segregated class consisting entirely of Jews. In 1944, he was rounded up with other Hungarian Jews and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of 14. He didn’t remain at Auschwitz, as he was transferred to Buchenwald, where he claimed to be 16-ye...
Ivan Kauders was born in Prague in 1931, where he grew up without any issues, not even knowing his parents had Jewish ancestry. Neither were observant Jews, but that didn’t matter when the Nazis came to Czechoslovakia in 1938. In November 1941, his father was ordered to a concentration camp at Theriesenstads; he and his mother followed the next mon...
Curt Lowens (originally, Löwenstein) was born in Olsztyn, Poland in 1925, and as the Nazis came to power in Germany, he and his family moved to Berlin. They hoped to find shelter among the large Jewish community there, but it wasn’t long before the Nazis forced the family to emigrate to the Netherlands. They planned to emigrate from there to the Un...
Branko Lustig was born to a Croatian Jewish family in the former Yugoslavia, now Croatia, in 1932. While his parents weren’t religious, his grandparents were, and they attended synagogue regularly. Lustig grew up in relative peace until World War II began, and it wasn’t long before he was taken as a young boy to the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen conc...
Roman Polanski was born in Paris to a Jewish family in 1933. The family relocated to Kraków in 1936, which is where they remained when Germany began its invasion of Poland. The city was soon occupied, and the Pola?skis were rounded up and forced to live in the Kraków Ghetto. He began primary school at the age of six, but only remained a few weeks b...
Leon Prochnik was born in 1933 to a Jewish family who owned the second-largest chocolate factory in Poland. For most of his youth, he enjoyed a privileged existence, but by 1939, the family was forced to flee Nazi-occupied Poland. His father was warned via telegram by one of his workers that the Nazis were looking for him, and despite being on vaca...
Karola Ruth Siegel was born in June 1928 in Wiesenfeld, Germany, to a family of Orthodox Jews who taught her Judaism at an early age. She attended synagogue regularly with her father, but in January 1939, she was sent to Heiden, Switzerland, to live in an orphanage so as to avoid the horrors of the oncoming war and Nazi regime. Before this happened...
Simon Wiesenthal was born on the last day of 1908 in an area of what is now known as Ternopil Oblast in Ukraine. His family had already emigrated from the Russian Empire three years earlier to escape the violent pogroms targeted against the Jewish community. His father was killed in action on the Eastern Front of World War I in 1915, which left the...
Meyer Gottlieb is known for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Guys and Dolls.
Dec 18, 2015 · Meyer Gottlieb, 76, president of Samuel Goldwyn Films and producer of films like “Master and Commander,” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “Tortilla Soup”. ‘The truth of the ...
Jun 7, 2016 · Gottlieb, a 76-year-old child survivor of the Holocaust who lost his father at age 4, praised his parents as heroes and said that he is fortunate to have lived “the American dream”...
Meyer Gottlieb “As a survivor, you have to prove there is a reason for your existence,” says the movie executive, who fled a small Polish village in 1939 and lost 90 percent of his family....
