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- Dora Gerson was born on 23 March 1899 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (1920) and Caravan of Death (1920). She was married to Max Sluizer and Veit Harlan. She died on 14 February 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.Died in Auschwitz concentration camp.
1899-1943 (43 years old) - Anna Letenská was born on 29 August 1904 in Nürschan, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Nyrany, Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Cekanky (1940), Babichka (1940) and Umlcené rty (1938). She died on 24 October 1942 in Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria.Shot in the head by German executioners at Mauthausen concentation camp.
1904-1942 (38 years old) - Harry Baur was born on 12 April 1880 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Life Dances On (1937), The Golem: The Legend of Prague (1936) and Les Misérables (1934). He was married to Rika Radifé and Rose Grane. He died on 8 April 1943 in Paris, France.Died under mysterious circumstances during WWII.
1880-1943 (62 years old) - Georg John was born on 23 July 1879 in Schmiegel, Poland. He was an actor, known for M (1931), Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924). He died on 18 November 1941 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.Died after being deported to the Lodz Ghetto during WWII.
1879-1941 (62 years old) - Ernst Arndt was born on 3 February 1861 in Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia [now Germany]. He was an actor, known for Herbstzauber (1918), Die Tragödie eines verschollenen Fürstensohnes (1922) and Der Umweg zur Ehe (1919). He died in 1942 in Treblinka Concentration Camp, General Governement.Murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp.
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Eugen Burg was born on 6 January 1871 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Der wird geheiratet (1921), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1915) and Alles aus Gefälligkeit (1916). He was married to Emmy Raabe-Burg. He died on 15 November 1944 in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now Terezín, Czech Republic].Died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
1871-1944 (73 years old)- Actor
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Gerron fled to France (because he was Jewish), then settled in Amsterdam in 1933. He was arrested by the SS in 1943 and was sent to Theresienstadt in 1944 to direct a staged documentary intended to persuade world public opinion that Jews were well treated in concentration camps. He made a film called "The Fuhrer Donates a City to the Jews" or in German "Der Fuhrer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt". After he completed the film he was sent to Auschwitz where he was murdered.Gassed to death in the Auschwitz gas chambers.
1897-1944 (47 years old)- Writer
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Josef Capek was born on 23 March 1887 in Hronov, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for The Shadow of the Ferns (1985), TV teatar (1956) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died in April 1945 in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany.(1945, April) Perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.- Hanne Mertens was born on 13 April 1909 in Germany. She was an actress, known for Alarmstufe V (1941) and Ich verweigere die Aussage (1939). She died on 21 April 1945 in Neuengamme Concentration Camp, Hamburg, Germany.(1945, April 21) Perished in the Neuengamme concentration camp.
- Andor Endre Gelléri was born on 30 March 1906 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Vasvirág (1958), Kései rekviem (1967) and Kommersz (2006). He died in May 1945 in Wels, Austria.(1945, May) In 1944, the Germans deported him, first to Mauthausen, and then to the Gunskirchen concentration camp. He was released near the end of the war, but his weakened body could not stand the ordeal, and in mid-May 1945 he died in a U.S. hospital.
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Robert Desnos was born on 4 July 1900 in Paris, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs (1944), Panurge (1932) and Et le mot frère et le mot camarade (1995). He died on 8 June 1945 in Terezín, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].(1945, June 11) Died at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.- Egon Friedell was born on 21 January 1878 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a writer and actor, known for Die Bekehrung des Dr. Wundt (1914), Aus meiner Bibliothek (1969) and Die Marquise von Clermont (1922). He died on 16 March 1938 in Vienna, Austria.
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Hans Behrendt was born on 28 September 1889 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for The Island of the Lost (1921), Alt Heidelberg (1923) and Dyckerpotts Erben (1928). He died in 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.- Actor
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Arthur Bergen was born on 24 October 1875 in Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Erinnerungen einer Nonne (1927), Frühere Verhältnisse (1927) and Das Lebenslied (1926). He died in 1943.- Actor
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Max Ehrlich (1892-1944) was one of the most celebrated actors and directors on the German comedy and cabaret scene of the 1930s. But his brilliant career was brutally interrupted by the rise of Nazism and his resulting deportation in 1942 to Westerbork concentration camp in Holland. Amazingly, there behind the walls and barbed wire, Max Ehrlich formed a theater troupe composed of fellow prisoners - the majority of them also famous Jewish show business personalities - and produced high quality musical and comedy revues. This artistic activity provided the means for everyone concerned, audience and actors alike, to retain a small measure of humanity, free their minds - if only momentarily - from the tragedy of daily life and nourish the illusion of survival. But, in the end, comedy did not prevail: like almost all of his colleagues from this theater of despair, in 1944 Max Ehrlich was transported to Auschwitz and gassed.- Actor
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John Gottowt was born on 15 June 1881 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. He was an actor and writer, known for Nosferatu (1922), Das schwarze Los (1913) and The Student of Prague (1913). He died on 27 August 1942 in Wieliczka, Malopolskie, Poland.- Writer
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Fritz Grünbaum was born on 7 April 1880 in Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]. He was a writer and actor, known for Die Csikosbaroneß (1930), 1. April 2000 (1952) and Liebeskommando (1931). He was married to Lilly Herzl, Mizzi Dressl and Karolina Nagelmüller. He died on 14 January 1941 in Dachau concentration camp, Bavaria, Germany.- Actor
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Karel Hasler was born on 31 October 1879 in Prague, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for Ircin románek (1936), Batalion (1927) and Písnickár (1932). He died on 22 December 1941 in Mauthausen concentration camp, Upper Danube, Germany [now Upper Austria, Austria].- Coen Hissink was born on 5 October 1878 in Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for De zwarte tulp (1921), Der Mann im Hintergrund (1922) and De man op den achtergrond (1922). He died on 17 December 1942 in Neuengamme, Germany.
- Kurt Lilien was born on 6 August 1882 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Harry Hill, der Herr der Welt (1923), Was Frauen träumen (1933) and Baby (1932). He died on 28 May 1943 in Sobibór Concentration Camp, Lubelskie, Poland.
- Henri Monteux was born on 23 February 1874 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Un roman parisien (1913), La maison du baigneur (1914) and Mon curé chez les riches (1938). He died on 12 April 1943 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg, Germany.
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Paul Morgan was born on 1 October 1886 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and writer, known for Wir schalten um auf Hollywood (1931), Der Herr vom Finanzamt (1929) and Funkzauber (1927). He was married to Josephine Ruffner. He died on 10 December 1938 in Buchenwald concentration camp, Thuringia, Germany.- Producer
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Bernard Natan was born Natan Tannenzaft in Romania. He emigrated to France and became involved in the film industry, and eventually was appointed head of Pathe-Cinema, a major film production company. Prior to being appointed to that position, however, it has been alleged to be one of the most prolific producers of "stag" films--hardcore pornographic shorts--but his were distinguished from the run-of-the-mill sex films by their attention to plot, editing, costumes and overall production professionalism, and he even acted in several of them. Recent evidence has come to light in the documentary Natan(2013)that the pornographic claims may be false. During WWI he enlisted and served France with distinction being awarded medals for valor. This earned him French citizenship. In 1928 he foresaw the impact that sound would have on the film industry and noted that none of the big French studios were prepared for it, so he bought out Pathe-Cinema from owner Charles Pathe who thought film talkies would not make money. Natan renamed the compant Pathe-Natan and equipped it to produce talkies and built a new production studio. His mainstream films attracted attention, often for their political content. His 1934 film, Le dernier milliardaire (1934), ridiculed German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and caused rioting by French Nazi sympathizers. His notoriety wasn't enough to stave off his financial problems, however, and in 1935 he declared bankruptcy and the studio ceased production. Arrested for fraud in 1936, he was in prison when the Germans took over Paris in 1940. The French government passed a new law to revoke Natan's citizenship because gaining citizenship has war veteran was equivalent to being born French. Rumor was that Charles Pathe was the force behind the scenes pushing things, still bitter that he sold his company to Natan. A Jew, Natan was rounded up with other French Jews, herded into a cattle car and sent off to a concentration camp. He was never seen again but his wife who was French received a letter from him in early 1943, this was the last contact. It is presumed to have died in a Nazi death camp.- Fritz Spira was born on 1 August 1881 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Die dritte Eskadron (1926), Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg - Die Tragödie eines Kaiserreiches (1928) and Kaiserwalzer (1933). He was married to Lotte Spira. He died in 1943 in KZ Ruma, Croatia [now Vojvodina, Serbia].
- Otto Wallburg was born on 21 February 1889 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Congress Dances (1931), Wer nimmt die Liebe ernst...? (1931) and Was Frauen träumen (1933). He died on 29 October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Actor. In the years 1933-36 he performed at the City Theaters in Warsaw. In addition, in the 1934/35 season he was in the group of the "Stara Banda" revue theater, and in 1936 he played in the Chamber Theater. He played mainly in movies, great external conditions predestined him to the roles of lovers. During the war, from 1940, he played in open theaters. In 1942, arrested by the Gestapo, on November 19 of that year he was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, where he was murdered.
- Maria Forescu was born on January 15, 1875 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Peer Gynt (1919), Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod (1919) and He or I (1930). She was married to Harry Piel. She died on October 28, 1947 in Berlin, Germany.
- Clementine Plessner was born on 7 December 1855 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Taras Bulba (1924), Kaliber fünf Komma zwei (1920) and Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1918). She died on 27 February 1943 in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now Terezín, Czech Republic].
- Max Zilzer was born on 23 November 1868 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Woman in the Moon (1929), Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg (1930) and Carl und Carla (1915). He died on 12 May 1943 in Berlin, Germany.
- Mathilde Sussin was born on 21 September 1876 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Die Buddenbrooks (1923), Frühlingserwachen (1929) and The Blue from the Sky (1932). She died on 2 August 1943 in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now Terezín, Czech Republic].
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Educated in Czernowitz, his musical education began in a synagogue choir. In 1924 he moved to Berlin to continue his musical studies. His opera debut was in Berlin in 1929, his film career began in 1931 with "Liebesexpress". His most famous movie was the 1933 film "Ein Lied geht um die Welt." He lived in Berlin, Vienna, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Nice and died in a Swiss internment camp for illegal refugees in 1942.- Actor
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Leslie Howard Steiner was born in London to Lilian (Blumberg) and Ferdinand "Frank" Steiner. His father was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and his English mother was of German Jewish and mostly English descent. Leslie went to Dulwich College, then worked as a bank clerk until the outbreak of World War I, when he went into the army. In 1917, diagnosed as shell-shocked, he was invalided out and advised to take up acting as therapy. In a few years, his name was famous on the stages of London and New York. He made his first movie in 1914: (The Heroine of Mons (1914)). He became known as the perfect Englishman (slim, tall, intellectual, and sensitive), a part that he played in many movies which set women to dreaming about him. His first sound movie came out in 1930: Outward Bound (1930), an adaptation of the stage play in which he starred. In Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931) and Smilin' Through (1932), he played the Englishman role to the hilt. His screen persona could perhaps best be summed up by his role as Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), a foppish society gentleman.
It was Howard who insisted that Humphrey Bogart get the role of Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), a role that Bogart had played in the stage production. As he became more successful, he also became quite picky about which roles he would do, and usually performed in only two films a year. In 1939, he played the character that will always be associated with him, that of Ashley Wilkes, the honor-bound, disillusioned intellectual Southern gentleman, in Gone with the Wind (1939).
However, war clouds were gathering over England, and he devoted all his energy on behalf of the war effort. He directed films, wrote articles and made radio broadcasts. He died in 1943, when the KLM plane he was in was shot down by German fighters over the Bay of Biscay.- Maria Bard was born on 7 July 1900 in Schwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931), G.P.U. (1942) and Husbands or Lovers (1924). She was married to Hannes Stelzer, Werner Krauss and Wilhelm Graaff. She died on 24 January 1944 in Potsdam, Germany.