
Kurt Gerron
Born May 11, 1897 · Berlin, Germany
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.
Notable Appearances
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Trapeze

The White Hell of Pitz Palu

Diary of a Lost Girl

Her Majesty Love

Burglars

We Need No Money

Accident

Girls for Sale!

The Three from the Filling Station

Bombs Over Monte Carlo

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

Benno Stehkragen

Die Schmiede

Daughter of the Regiment

Der große Unbekannte

Road to Rio

The Fugitive Lover

Variety

Madame Pompadour

Prisoner of Paradise

Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell

The Golden Butterfly

Two in a Car

Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen

Der Liebe Lust und Leid

Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur

Die Flucht vor der Liebe

Die schönsten Beine von Berlin

Dolly is making a career

Die drei Mannequins

O alte Burschenherrlichkeit

A Crazy Night

The Alley Cat

Das tanzende Wien

Agitated Woman

Love in the Ring

Fairground People

The Strange Case of Captain Ramper

Heut tanzt Mariett

Die weiße Spinne

The White Horse Inn

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