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.
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Known For
Filmography
Acting Credits (62)
Prisoner of Paradise
Self (archival footage)
2003
Theresienstadt
Regisseur - Schauspieler
1944
The Eternal Jew
(archive footage)
1940
Her Majesty Love
Hornberg
1933
Vater geht auf Reisen
Kommissar
1932
Directing Credits (17)
Theresienstadt
Director
1944
Merijntje Gijzen's Boyhood
Director
1936
The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata
Director
1935
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
Director
1935
Incognito
Director
1934
