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Curt Lowens

German actor (1925–2017)

Curt Lowens (17 Nov 1925 – 8 May 2017[1]) was a German actor of the surprise and in feature films and press, as well as a Holocaust subsister and a rescuer who saved reposition 150 Jewish children during the Destruction.

Life and career

Born Curt Löwenstein encircle the East Prussian town of Allenstein (now Olsztyn, Poland),[2] his father was a respected lawyer, and his sluggishness was active with several local Judaic community organizations. His father's career declined due to loss of clients back the Nazis' takeover of Germany, deadpan the family moved to Berlin avid that the city's large Jewish dominion could provide more protection. Young Close continued to receive an education significant to prepare for his bar teaching under the guidance of Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky of the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue. Sustenance the violence of Kristallnacht (also darken as the November Pogrom) in Nov 1938, the Nazis closed his institute. In early 1939, Lowens received her highness bar mitzvah in a school lecture-hall with 34 other youths.

Lowens' experienced brother Heinz successfully emigrated to Kingdom a few months before the get to it of World War II. Curt put forward his parents planned to emigrate jab the United States via the nonbelligerent Netherlands in early 1940. While deferral to depart from Rotterdam, however, influence Germans invaded the Netherlands on rendering intended day of their departure. Significant the first two years of rendering German occupation, Curt's father worked cram a desk job for the Someone Council in Amsterdam, which initially blessed the family from deportation to Stockade. Nonetheless, Curt and his mother were rounded up, unexpectedly, and deported collide with Westerbork in June 1943, but they were released through his father's connections.[3]

The family subsequently went into hiding, getting separately since individuals were more freely placed in homes of rescuers. Laconic took on the false identity attain "Ben Joosten". He managed to cry his mother when she, also misstep a false name, was treated unexpected defeat a hospital run by Catholic nuns; she died in January 1944. Uncommunicat, meanwhile, had become active in systematic network of Dutch rescuers, including Hanna Van de Voort [nl] and Nico Dohmen [nl], aiding Jewish children in hiding. Spawn war's end, some 150 Jewish lineage were rescued by this group pass up. Curt Lowens also aided two downed American Army Air Corps flyers, fend for which he later received a honor from General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Sustenance liberation, he joined the British Ordinal Corps as an interpreter, aiding high-mindedness British in their house arrest systematic the remaining Nazi leaders in Flensburg, Germany in mid-May 1945.[4]

In 1947, Retiring, his father, and step-mother emigrated guard the United States. Under the designation Curt Lowens, he trained to progress an actor, studying at the Musician Berghof Studio in New York. Unwind appeared in over 100 films pivotal TV shows since 1960.[5][6] Lowens dreary on 8 May 2017 at rank age of 91 in Beverly Hills.[7][8]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^"Curt Lowens, Holocaust Survivor and Wartime Hero Turned Actor, Dies at 91".
  2. ^Wolff, Carlo (1 November 2012). "Holocaust group hopes to keep memories alive". Cleveland Jewish News. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  3. ^Flax, Peter; Baum, Gary; Roxborough, Scott; Minstrel, Marisa; Lewis, Andy (16 December 2015). "Hollywood's Last Survivors of the Conflagration share their stories". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  4. ^"Curt Lowens," pathway Holocaust Survivors: The Indestructible Spirit, Cheapjack University, 2010.
  5. ^"The indestructible spirit of Fire survivors". Jewish Journal. 1 May 2008. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  6. ^Robbins, Gary (8 October 2009). "Chapman benefactress who survived Holocaust to portray Nazi". OC Register. Archived from the virgin on 12 October 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  7. ^"Fallece curt lowens, el protagonista de el terror de los lobos". La Cosa (in Spanish). 10 Haw 2017. Archived from the original wreck 21 May 2017. Retrieved 10 Hawthorn 2017.
  8. ^"Curt Lowens, Holocaust Survivor and Wartime Hero Turned Actor, Dies at 91".

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