Dora Gerson
Dorothea Gerson ( born March 23, 1899 in Berlin, † February 14, 1943 in Auschwitz ) was a German silent film actress and cabaret singer.
Life
She played around 1920 in some early Karl May films. In 1922 she married the director Veit Harlan, of which she was divorced in 1924.
In the season 1923/24, the actress was named as a member of the Holtorf touring troupe. Members of this band were, among others Mathias Wieman, Gerald Brosig, Ernst Ginsberg, Veit Harlan, Maria Heil, Ruth Hellberg, Hans Holtorf, Gerda Joswig, Hans Heinrich Klatt, Margarete Kyper, Ruth Ledermann, Hans Mahlau, August Rabien, Oskar Schab Advertisers Siedhoff, Walter Ullmann, Annette de Vries, Heinrich Wortmann and Willy Wortmann.
From 1933 Dora Gerson was no longer listed in the clay film leader, as a Jew, she had as a result of the Nuremberg race laws from now on prohibition. She was left with only the opportunity to perform at events of the Jewish Cultural Union.
In April 1935, she was in Berlin on a plate recording the songs " Gone " and " larboard and starboard - The world has become small " part of a Jewish record company.
1936 Dora Gerson fled to the Netherlands and lived there as inconspicuously as possible after the invasion of the Wehrmacht. In 1942, she tried to escape with her family in Switzerland. It was made in France and taken to the Westerbork transit camp, where she performed for their fellow prisoners and the guards.
In February 1943 she was deported to February 14, 1943 in Auschwitz, together with her second husband and two children from his second marriage, was murdered.