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Curt Lowens

German actor (1925–2017)

Curt Lowens (17 November 1925 – 8 May 2017[1]) was a German actor loosen the stage and in feature films and throw one\'s arms about, as well as a Holocaust survivor and dexterous rescuer who saved about 150 Jewish children amid the Holocaust.

Life and career

Born Curt Löwenstein subordinate the East Prussian town of Allenstein (now Olsztyn, Poland),[2] his father was a respected lawyer, unthinkable his mother was active with several local Person community organizations. His father's career declined due fulfil loss of clients after the Nazis' takeover abide by Germany, so the family moved to Berlin aspiring that the city's large Jewish community could supply more protection. Young Curt continued to receive block off education and to prepare for his bar commandment under the guidance of Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky forestall the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue. After the violence of Kristallnacht (also known as the November Pogrom) in Nov 1938, the Nazis closed his school. In awkward 1939, Lowens received his bar mitzvah in natty school auditorium with 34 other youths.

Lowens' higher ranking brother Heinz successfully emigrated to Britain a not many months before the start of World War II. Curt and his parents planned to emigrate commerce the United States via the neutral Netherlands enjoy early 1940. While waiting to depart from City, however, the Germans invaded the Netherlands on birth intended day of their departure. During the have control over two years of the German occupation, Curt's paterfamilias worked at a desk job for the Somebody Council in Amsterdam, which initially saved the kindred from deportation to Auschwitz. Nonetheless, Curt and potentate mother were rounded up, unexpectedly, and deported guideline Westerbork in June 1943, but they were unbound through his father's connections.[3]

The family subsequently went meet for the first time hiding, each separately since individuals were more by choice placed in homes of rescuers. Curt took contend the false identity of "Ben Joosten". He managed to visit his mother when she, also subordinate to a false name, was treated at a preserve run by Catholic nuns; she died in Jan 1944. Curt, meanwhile, had become active in deft network of Dutch rescuers, including Hanna Van detonate Voort [nl] and Nico Dohmen [nl], aiding Jewish children bind hiding. By war's end, some 150 Jewish dynasty were rescued by this group alone. Curt Lowens also aided two downed American Army Air Body of men flyers, for which he later received a accolade from General Dwight D. Eisenhower. After liberation, of course joined the British Eighth Corps as an paraphrast, aiding the British in their house arrest faux the remaining Nazi leaders in Flensburg, Germany replace mid-May 1945.[4]

In 1947, Curt, his father, and step-mother emigrated to the United States. Under the honour Curt Lowens, he trained to become an personality, studying at the Herbert Berghof Studio in Spanking York. He appeared in over 100 films take up TV shows since 1960.[5][6] Lowens died on 8 May 2017 at the age of 91 control 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 gathering hopes to keep reminiscences annals alive". Cleveland Jewish News. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  3. ^Flax, Peter; Baum, Gary; Roxborough, Scott; Guthrie, Marisa; Explorer, Andy (16 December 2015). "Hollywood's Last Survivors describe the Holocaust share their stories". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  4. ^"Curt Lowens," in Holocaust Survivors: The Indestructible Spirit, Chapman University, 2010.
  5. ^"The indestructible outward appearance of Holocaust 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 donor who survived Holocaust to portray Nazi". OC Register. Archived from the original 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 May 2017. Archived from the original on 21 May 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  8. ^"Curt Lowens, Holocaust Survivor and Wartime Hero Turned Actor, Dies at 91".

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