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Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 30 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga, were murdered in the Holocaust . Life. Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he studied medicine before being called up for military service in World War I.
Kurt Gerron was a successful actor and director in interwar Germany, but was expelled from the industry by the Nazis in 1933. He survived the Terezin ghetto, where he established a cabaret troupe, but was deported to Auschwitz and killed in 1944.
Kurt Gerron (1897-1944) was a German-born Jewish performer who starred in The Blue Angel and directed a Nazi propaganda film in Theresienstadt. He was arrested by the SS and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.
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May 12, 2022 · Kurt Gerron was a Jewish actor and director who made a propaganda film for the Nazis at Theresienstadt. He was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in 1944.
Kurt Gerron was a Jewish actor and director who made a propaganda film for the Nazis in Theresienstadt. He was deported to Auschwitz and gassed after the filming was completed.
Kurt Gerron was a Jewish cabaret artist, actor and film director who died in a Nazi concentration camp. He was forced to make a propaganda film that showed life in Theresienstadt as idyllic, but he secretly subverted the message.
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Kurt Gerron was a famous German actor, singer and director who performed in Three Penny Opera and Blue Angel. He was deported to Westerbork and Theresienstadt, where he continued his artistic activities under Nazi control.
