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Born Kurt Gerson to Jewish parents in Berlin, Germany , Gerron initially studied medicine but became a stage actor in 1920 . He appeared in such films as '' The Blue Angel '' opposite Marlene Dietrich . Gerron was offered a trip to Hollywood but refused and stayed behind in Europe. He later left Germany , traveling first to France and later to the Netherlands . After the German army occupied the Netherlands, he was interned in the transit camp at Westerbork before being sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp. There he ran a cabaret called The Karussell to entertain the inmates. He was subsequently blackmailed by the National Socialists to make a Propaganda film showing how 'nice' Concentration Camp s were (Title ''Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt'' - ''The Fuehrer Gives a City to the Jews''). After the film was completed, he was sent to Auschwitz near the end of The War , where he was gassed. Gerron is the subject of two documentary films, ''Prisoner in Paradise'' and ''Kurt Gerrons Karussell''. The narrator in ''Kurt Gerrons Karussell'', which stars Ute Lemper , is Roy Kift who has also written a play on Gerron's time in Theresienstadt entitled ''Camp Comedy''. The play is published in ''The Theatre of the Holocaust'' edited by Professor Robert Skloot and published by the University of Wisconsin Press. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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