Kurt Gerron

Kurt Gerron was born on May 11, 1897 in Germany. Kurt Gerron's big-screen debut came with Variety directed by Ewald André Dupont in 1925, strarring Hafenarbeiter. Kurt Gerron is known for Ein toller Einfall directed by Kurt Gerron, Willy Fritsch stars as Paul Lüders and Dorothea Wieck as Mabel Miller. The upcoming new movie Kurt Gerron plays is Die Marquise von Pompadour which will be released on Feb 02, 1936.

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.