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- Rudolf Hoess was born on 25 November 1900 in Baden-Baden, Germany. He was married to Hedwig Hensel. He died on 7 April 1947 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
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.- Producer
- Actor
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.- Sanne Ledermann was born on 7 October 1928 in Berlin, Germany. She died on 19 November 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- She was born in 1903 into a Ukrainian Jewish family, and emigrated to Paris as a young woman. She wrote nine books between 1929 and 1937, one of which was made into a movie ("David Golder", 1930). She became well-known in France, but did not become a French citizen. She converted to Catholicism in 1939, but could not escape the rise of anti-Semitism. After the Nazis invaded France, she was arrested in 1942 as "a stateless person of Jewish descent" and deported to Auschwitz, where she and her husband both died.
- Edith Frank was born on 16 January 1900 in Aachen, Germany. She was married to Otto Frank. She died on 6 January 1945 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Nazi German Occupied Poland [now Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland].
- 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.
- Director
- Cinematographer
Rudolf Breslauer was born on 4 July 1903 in Leipzig, German Empire. He was a director and cinematographer. He died on 28 February 1945 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
- Additional Crew
Robert Lieibmann was German newspaper film and stage critic who became a successful screenwriter with such films as The Love Waltz (1930), Congress Dances (1931) and Blued Angel (1931). In the mid 1930s Liebmann was beckoned to Hollywood by actress Mady Christians to help jump start her flagging career. While living in France Robert Liebmann became one of the millions of European Jews to vanish under Nazi tyranny during the Second World War.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Pavel Haas was born on 21 June 1899 in Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]. He was a composer, known for Life Is a Dog (1933), Le mari rêvé (1936) and Mazlícek (1934). He died on 17 October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
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.- László Horváth was born in 1896 in Szatmárnémeti, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Szeptember végén (1942), Isten rabjai (1942) and Csákó és kalap (1941). He died in 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Herman van Pels was born on 31 March 1889 in Osnabrück, Germany. He was married to Auguste van Pels. He died on 6 September 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, 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.
- Sophie de Vries-de Boer was born on 19 June 1882 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress, known for Op hoop van zegen (1934). She was married to Hartog de Vries. She died on 11 February 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Music Department
- Composer
Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Teschen, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. He was a composer, known for The Music of Terezin (1994), The Emperor of Atlantis (1977) and Viktor Ullmann: Viografia mias ihografisis (2015). He died on 18 October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.- Bronislawa Koyallowicz was born on 6 January 1892. She was an actress, known for Powrót (1920). She was married to Aleksander Rodmunt and Kazimierz Wierzynski. She died in 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Edith Stein was born on 12 October 1891 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She was a writer, known for Television Theater (1953). She died on 9 August 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Georg Hermann was born on 7 October 1871 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer, known for Jettchen Gebert's Story (1918), Kubinke, der Barbier, und die drei Dienstmädchen (1926) and Rosenemil (1993). He was married to Martha Heynemann and Lotte Samter. He died on 19 November 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Geza L. Weiss was born on 16 February 1904 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Armored Vault (1926), Dolly macht Karriere (1930) and Hokuspokus (1930). He was married to Sara Drielsma. He died on 6 September 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Benö Karácsony was born on 7 September 1888 in Gyulafehérvár, Hungary [now Alba Iulia, Romania]. He was a writer, known for Napos oldal (1983) and Különös mátkaság (1977). He died in 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Franz Engel was born on 16 September 1898 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Vagabonder i Wien (1925), Der falsche Feldmarschall (1930) and The Great Love (1931). He died on 16 October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Adolf Abter was born on 1 December 1887 in Hanover, Germany. Adolf was a director and producer, known for Die Nacht und der Leichnam (1920), Zwei schwarze Laternen (1921) and Der goldene Skorpion (1921). Adolf died on 5 July 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.- Lajos Parlagi was born on 5 January 1877 in Szentes, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Az utolsó éjszaka (1917). He died in December 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Jane Bess was born on 28 November 1891 in Poznan, Poland. She was a writer, known for Die Erbschaft von New York (1919), Sklaven des Kapitals (1919) and Die Sklavenhalter von Kansas-City (1920). She died in March 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.