Auschwitz victims

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.

Grete Berger was born on 11 February 1883 in Jägerndorf, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Krnov, Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), The Student of Prague (1913) and Ein Sommernachtstraum in unserer Zeit (1914). She was married to Hanns Heinz Ewers. She died on 23 May 1944 in KZ Auschwitz, Germany.

Hans Behrendt was born on 28 September 1889 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Alt Heidelberg (1923), The Island of the Lost (1921) and Dyckerpotts Erben (1928). He died in 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.

Otto Wallburg was born on 21 February 1889 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Congress Dances (1931), Her Majesty Love (1931) and Wer nimmt die Liebe ernst...? (1931). He died on 29 October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.

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.

Fritz Loehner-Beda was educated in law at the University of Vienna, and wrote poems for newspapers and books. Following World War I he was a staff writer, and he joined a music-publisher affiliated with AKM (Austrian Performing Rights Society) by 1935, where he became a vice-president by 1938. His stage scores include "Friederike" (Frederika), "Das Land des Laechelns" (Yours Is My Heart), "Viktoria und ihr Hussar", "Schen Ist die Welt", "Giuditta", "Ball im Savoy", and "Blume von Hawai". His chief musical collaborators included Franz Lehar, Paul Abraham and Alfred Gruenwald (his co-lyricist), and his popular-song compositions include "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" (Yours Is My Heart Alone), "O Donna Klara", "Valenzia", "Sonja", "O Katherina", "Oh Maiden, My Maiden", "Schoen ist die Welt", "Meine Lippen sie kussen so heisse", and "Blume von Hawaii", all represented by ASCAP, where he was enrolled as a member posthumously in 1946.

Richard Fall was born on 3 April 1882 in Gewitsch, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Jevicko, Czech Republic]. He was a composer, known for Sehnsucht 202 (1932), Melody of the Heart (1929) and Merely Mary Ann (1931). He died in 1945 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.

Willy Rosen was born on 18 July 1894 in Magdeburg, Germany. He was a composer and actor, known for Holzapfel weiß alles (1932), Moritz macht sein Glück (1931) and C'était un musicien (1933). He died on 26 October 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.

Jerzy Klimaszewski was born on 3 July 1903. He was an actor, known for Spy (1933), Jadzia (1936) and Janko Muzykant (1930). He died in 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.

Lina Salten was born on 1 February 1890 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for Cornelie Arendt (1920), Die Glocken der Katharinenkirche (1918) and Die Geisterjagd (1918). She died on 15 January 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rudolf Bamberger was born on 21 May 1888 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was an art director and director, known for Die steinernen Wunder von Naumburg (1932), The Waltz Dream (1925) and The Burning Heart (1929). He died in January 1945 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.

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 Henriette Jacoby (1918). He was married to Martha Heynemann and Lotte Samter. He died on 19 November 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.

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.

Zoltán Hirsch was born on 6 February 1885 in Dombóvár, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Ágyú és harang (1915), Mackó úr kalandjai (1921) and Jobbra én, balra te (1918). He died in 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.

Edmond Roze was born on 10 August 1878 in Reims, Marne, France. He was an actor, known for Le fils improvisé (1932), 600 000 francs par mois (1933) and Un coup de rouge (1937). He died on 23 July 1943 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.

Benjamin Fondane was born on 14 November 1898 in Iasi, Romania. He was a writer and director, known for Tararira (1936) and The Kidnapping (1934). He died on 2 October 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.

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.