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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 war ein deutscher Schauspieler, Sänger und Regisseur. Er wurde als Jude von den Nationalsozialisten verfolgt, interniert und ermordet.
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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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 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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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 (1897-1944) played police chief "Tiger" Brown on the opening night of one of the greatest theatrical productions of the twentieth century, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Three Penny Opera. Gerron was sent to Westerbork with his family on 20 September 1943.
