Ilse Stanley

Ilse Stanley ( born Ilse son of David, married / gesch Ilse Intrator. . ) ( Born March 11, 1906 in Gliwice, † July 21, 1970 in Boston (USA) ) was a German actress.

Life and work

Ilse son David was the daughter of the cantor of the synagogue pheasant street in Berlin -Charlottenburg, Magnus son of David. She attended the Auguste- Victoria School in Charlottenburg and studied after high school history and theater studies at the University of Berlin. Parallel she took classes at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater under the direction of Max Reinhardt. She also worked as a bookkeeper and secretary.

First she went under the stage name " Ilse Davis " on. In addition to her stage roles, she participated in several feature films, including Metropolis by Fritz Lang ( 1927). In 1929 she opened her own theater. In 1932 she married the concert violinist Alexander Intrator ( 1905-2004 ); They were divorced during the war.

1933 ended her acting career abruptly. By 1936 they could still hold lecture evenings, usually in the context of the cultural program of Jewish Communities ( Jewish Cultural Union ). The following years were marked by their work in a Jewish underground group. In August 1939, she escaped and came to America.

In 1946, she closed her marriage to Milton Stanley. During the late 1940s and 1950s she wrote several radio plays. Together with her ​​husband, she also worked as a decorator and an interior designer. She died at the age of 64 years in Boston; to Germany, she never returned.

Rescue of Jewish inmates from 1936 to 1938

Until today Ilse Stanley is because of their significant role in the rescue of a total of 412 Jewish prisoners from Nazi concentration camps.

In the years before the Second World War she helped Moreover, a large number of other embattled Jewish people to leave the country.

Are documented on their aid and rescue operations in the television film This Is Your Life (1955) and in Stanley's autobiography The Unforgotten, which in the United States appeared in 1957 ( German edition: 1964). Unlike in Germany, their act in the U.S. will be remembered as an important example for the Jewish resistance against the Nazi regime.