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Ein Toller Einfall

Kurt GerronWW-1932-M095818

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Year
1932

Artist

Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron

Performance Art

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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Year
1932
Watts ID
WW-1932-M095818

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Source
moma
Status
verified

Artist

Kurt Gerron

Kurt Gerron

Performance Art

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