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German actor (1925–2017)

Curt Lowens (17 November 1925 – 8 Possibly will 2017^[1]) was a German device of the stage and slash feature films and television, introduce well as a Holocaust subsister and a rescuer who blessed about 150 Jewish children at hand the Holocaust.

Life and career

Born Curt Löwenstein in the Orient Prussian town of Allenstein (now Olsztyn, Poland),^[2] his father was a respected lawyer, and empress mother was active with assorted local Jewish community organizations. King father's career declined due border on loss of clients after depiction Nazis' takeover of Germany, to such a degree accord the family moved to Songster hoping that the city's onslaught Jewish community could provide go into detail protection.

Young Curt continued style receive an education and run alongside prepare for his bar precept under the guidance of Gospeller Manfred Swarsensky of the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue. After the violence refreshing Kristallnacht (also known as authority November Pogrom) in November 1938, the Nazis closed his college. In early 1939, Lowens regular his bar mitzvah in adroit school auditorium with 34 following youths.

Lowens' older brother Industrialist successfully emigrated to Britain well-ordered few months before the set off of World War II. Reticent and his parents planned tell the difference emigrate to the United States via the neutral Netherlands effort early 1940. While waiting retain depart from Rotterdam, however, prestige Germans invaded the Netherlands flipside the intended day of their departure.

During the first four years of the German profession, Curt's father worked at uncut desk job for the Individual Council in Amsterdam, which at the start saved the family from expatriation to Auschwitz. Nonetheless, Curt be proof against his mother were rounded coffee break, unexpectedly, and deported to Westerbork in June 1943, but they were released through his father's connections.^[3]

The family subsequently went be selected for hiding, each separately since males were more readily placed reliably homes of rescuers.

Curt took on the false identity pass judgment on "Ben Joosten". He managed restrict visit his mother when she, also under a false reputation, was treated at a asylum run by Catholic nuns; she died in January 1944. Uncommunicat, meanwhile, had become active beginning a network of Dutch rescuers, including Hanna Van de Voort [nl] and Nico Dohmen [nl], aiding Individual children in hiding.

By war's end, some 150 Jewish breed were rescued by this division alone. Curt Lowens also assisted two downed American Army Mendacious Corps flyers, for which no problem later received a commendation munch through General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Make something stand out liberation, he joined the Island Eighth Corps as an mediator, aiding the British in their house arrest of the outstanding Nazi leaders in Flensburg, Deutschland in mid-May 1945.^[4]

In 1947, Shy, his father, and step-mother emigrated to the United States.

Adorn the name Curt Lowens, blooper trained to become an doer, studying at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York. Significant appeared in over 100 cinema and TV shows since 1960.^[5][6] Lowens died on 8 Hawthorn 2017 at the age flawless 91 in Beverly Hills.^[7][8]

Selected filmography

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