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.

The last deportation of Jews from Terezin to Auschwitz left on 28 October 1944, carrying Kurt Gerron, who worked on the German propaganda film made in Terezin.

May 12, 2022 · After school Kurt Gerron fought in the First World War and he was wounded several times. During his service he studied medicine, and he obtained a degree in medicine. However, he did not pursue a career in medicine, and he …

Kurt Gerron. Actor: The Blue Angel. 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.

Prisoner of Paradise: Directed by Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender. With Ian Holm, Robert Lantz, Eleonore Hertzberg, Lone Koppel. Documentary about Holocaust victim Kurt Gerron.

He created the role of 'Tiger Brown', the Lord Mayor of London, in Berholdt Brecht and Kurt Weill's "The Threepenny Opera" (1928) and made "Mack the Knife" his signature song in his stage act. He also appeared in the films "Diary of a Lost Girl" (1928) and "The Blue Angel".

The film is an international co-production of Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor and director in the 1920s and 1930s who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II.

Kurt Gerron (eigentlich Kurt Gerson) (11. Mai 1897 in Berlin – 30. Oktober [1] 1944 im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) war ein deutscher Schauspieler, Sänger und Regisseur. Er wurde als Jude von den Nationalsozialisten verfolgt, interniert und ermordet.

May 5, 2016 · Gerron was one of the biggest stars in Berlin. Today, however, the filmmaker is best known as the director of a Nazi propaganda film on the Theresienstadt concentration camp, also known as the...

Kurt Gerron (May 11, 1897 – October 28, 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he initially studied medicine but was called up for military service in World War I. Seriously wounded he qualified as a military doctor of the German Army.