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Ilse Stanley (before 1957)

Ilse Stanley (nee Ilse Davidsohn , married / divorced Ilse Intrator ) (born March 11, 1906 in Gliwice , † July 21, 1970 in Boston , USA ) was a German actress . From 1936 to 1938 during the Nazi era she belonged to a Jewish resistance organization and helped numerous Jews to escape from a concentration camp and to emigrate from the German Reich . In 1939 she managed to escape to the USA herself.

Live and act

Ilse Davidsohn was the daughter of the cantor of the synagogue on Fasanenstrasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg , Magnus Davidsohn . She attended the Auguste Viktoria School in Charlottenburg and, after graduating from high school, studied history and theater studies at the Berlin University. At the same time she took lessons at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater under the direction of Max Reinhardt . She also worked as an accountant and secretary.

First she performed under the stage name "Ilse Davis". In addition to her stage roles, she appeared in several 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); the marriage was divorced during the war.

In 1933, after power was handed over to the National Socialists , her acting career ended abruptly. Until 1936 she was able to organize lecture evenings, mostly as part of the cultural program of Jewish communities ( Jüdischer Kulturbund ). The following years were marked by her work in an underground Jewish group. In August 1939 she escaped and came to the USA.

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

Rescue of Jewish prisoners from 1936 to 1938

Ilse Stanley is known to this day because of her decisive role in the rescue of a total of 412 Jewish prisoners from National Socialist concentration camps .

In the years leading up to World War II, she also helped a large number of other besieged Jewish people to leave the country.

Their relief and rescue operations are documented in the television film This Is Your Life (1955) and in Stanley's autobiography The Unforgotten , which appeared in the USA in 1957 (German edition: 1964). In contrast to Germany, the USA remembers her act as an important example of the Jewish resistance against Nazi rule .

Works

  • I will lift up mine eyes . Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 1954.
  • The Unforgotten . Beacon Press, Boston MA 1957
  • The unforgotten . Translated from the American into German by Ilse F. Stanley. Desch, Munich / Vienna / Basel 1964.

literature

  • Ilse Stanley, 64, Rescued Jews From Nazi Prisons . In: The New York Times , July 22, 1970. ( Abstract )
  • Jeffrey Shandler: "While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust" . In: This is Your Life: Preserving Holocaust Survivor Testimonies on Early Television. UCLA Library Film and Television archive. Unknown year of publication. P. 5–8 ( PDF )

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Intrator. In: Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era . October 31, 2017, accessed July 21, 2020 . Obituaries: Intrator, Alexander. In: The Journal News. October 2, 2004, archived from the original on September 7, 2012 ; accessed on July 21, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Stanley, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davidsohn, Ilse; Intrator, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1970
Place of death Boston , USA