Director

Kurt Gerron

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Directed movies: 13Directed series: 0All crew credits: 13

TMDB ID: 2897

IMDb ID: nm0314777

Known for: Acting

Born: May 11, 1897

Died: October 30, 1944

Age: 47

Place of birth: Berlin, Germany

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1924 - 2003

Years active: 80

Average TMDB rating: 6.55

Wikidata: Q60905

Also known as

Kurt Gerson

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Biography

Kurt Gerron (born Kurt Gerson; 11 May 1897 – 30 October 1944) 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. In 1944 he was forced by the Nazis to make the propaganda film Theresienstadt: A Documentary Film from the Jewish Settlement Area, 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.