Dora Gerson

Dora Gerson (March 23, 1899 - February 14, 1943) was a Jewish German cabaret singer and motion picture actress of the silent film era who was notoriously murdered with her family at Auschwitz. March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or a member of the Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue - a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ... LeAnn Rimes singing in concert For other senses of this word, see singer (disambiguation). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... Entrance to Auschwitz II (Birkenau), the main extermination camp, in 2002 Entrance to Auschwitz in 1941. ...

Born Dorthea Gerson in Berlin, Germany, Gerson began her career as touring singer and actress in the Holtor Tournee Truppe in Germany where she met and married her first husband, film director Veit Harlan. The couple married in 1922 and divorced in 1924. Harlan would eventually direct the highly anti-semitic Nazi propaganda film Jud Süß by request of Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels. For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation). ... Veit Harlan (* September 22, 1899 in Berlin; † April 13, 1964 in Capri/Italy) was a German film director and actor. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A propaganda film is a film, often a documentary, produced for the express purpose of propaganda: convincing the viewer of a certain political point. ... The Propagandaministerium (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda) (or State Minister for Public enlightenment and propaganda - classic doublespeak) was the ministry for propaganda in Nazi Germany. ... Joseph Goebbels Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ...

In 1920, Dora Gerson was cast by director Karl May to appear in his film successful film Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (In the Rubble of Paradise) and later followed that same year in another May film entitled Die Todeskarawane (The Death Caravan). Both films have been lost however for many years. Gerson continued to perform as a popular cabaret singer throughout the 1920s as well as acting in films. 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Karl Friedrich May (Hohenstein-Ernstthal, February 25, 1842 - Radebeul, March 30, 1912) was the best selling German writer of all time, noted chiefly for wild west books set in the American West and similar books set in the Middle East; in addition, he also wrote some lesser-known stories set... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties. // Events and trends Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s, and particularly in the United States. ...

By 1933 however, when the Nazis came to power in Germany, the German-Jewish population were systematically stripped of rights and Gerson's career slowed dramatically. Blacklisted from performing in "Aryan" films, Gerson began recording music for a small Jewish record company. Dora Gerson also began recording in the Yiddish language during this time, and the 1936 song Der Rebe Hot Geheysn Freylekh Zayn became highly regarded by the Jews of Europe in the 1930s. Her best remembered recording from this era was the song Vorbei (Beyond Recall). The song was an emotional ballad, subtlely memorializing a Germany before the rise of the Nazi Party: 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... Yiddish (Yid. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...

Vorbei, vorbei, vorbei

They're gone beyond recall

A final glance, a last kiss

And then it's all over

They're gone beyond recall

A final word, a last farewell

In 1936 Dora Gerson relocated with relatives to the Netherlands, fleeing Nazi persecution. On May 10, 1940 however, Germany invaded the Netherlands and the Netherlands capitulated in just ten days. Soon, The Jews of the Netherlands were subject to the same anit-semitic laws and restrictiions as in Germany. In 1942 Gerson and her family were seized trying to flee to Switzerland, a neutral nation in World War 11 Europe. The family were sent by railroad car to transit camp Westerbork bound for the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland. Dora Gerson died at Auschwitz on February 14, 1943 at the age of 43. 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... This article is about the concentration camp. ... On 1 September 1939, without a formal declaration of war, Germany invaded Poland. ...

External links

• Beyond Recall by Tina Frühauf

• University of Pennsylvania Library /Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image/Freedman Jewish Music Archive