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Kurt Gerron

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German Jewish film actor, director and singer murdered at Auschwitz (1897-1944)

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Kurt Gerron 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.

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Filmography 40

The Blue Angel1930 · ★ 7.3
Diary of a Lost Girl1929 · ★ 7.3
People on Sunday1930 · ★ 7.2
The Eternal Jew1940 · ★ 4.7
Variety1925
The White Hell of Pitz Palu1929
Accident1928
The Three from the Filling Station1930
Theresienstadt1944
Road to Rio1931
Burglars1930
Bombs Over Monte Carlo1931
Prisoner of Paradise2003
Love in the Ring1930
We Need No Money1931
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper1928
Stupéfiants1932
A Mad Idea1932
Fairground People1930
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata1935
The Alley Cat1929
A Crazy Night1927
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood1936
My Wife, the Adventuress1931
One Night at the Grand Hotel1931
Two in a Car1932
The White Demon1932
Dolly is making a career1930
Trapeze1931
The Golden Butterfly1926
Her Majesty Love1933
Girls for Sale!1927
Die drei Mannequins1926
Manege1928
Das tanzende Wien1927
The mute of Portici1931
A Woman at the Wheel1933
Die Pflicht zu schweigen1928
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen1927
Fighting the White Slave Traffic1927

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Kurt Gerron 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. He was forced by the Nazis to make a propaganda film about Theresienstadt, officially named Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet, 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.

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Actor
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deceased
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Lived 1897 to 1944 · aged 47
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