Kurt Gerron
actor, director, writer
- Birth name:
- Kurt Gerson
- Born:
- 1897-05-11, Berlin, Germany
- Died:
- 1944-10-28, Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, German Occupied Poland [now Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland]
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
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.
Filmography
In the vault (42)
