Jiří Strass
Jiří Strass (born October 8, 1912 in Bohemia , Austria-Hungary ; died October 30, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a Czech theater actor , theater director and Holocaust victim .
Life
Jiří Strass began his stage career in the 1930s as an actor and cabaret artist in the Czech provinces. In Chrudim , the Jew Strass was arrested by German authorities in the middle of the Second World War and deported from nearby Pardubitz on December 5, 1942 to the Theresienstadt ghetto . Here Strass joined the small but very committed theater scene and became active as a director for Karel Švenk's theater troupe. One of his productions in 1943 was the play The fatal fate of love . On October 28, 1944, Strass was deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp on the last train to leave Theresienstadt, along with German film colleagues Otto Wallburg and Kurt Gerron . Jiří Strass was murdered there as soon as he arrived, like those mentioned above.
Web links
- Jiří Strass on holocaust.cz
- Jiří Strass on ushmm.org
- Jiří Strass on ehri-project.eu I
- Jiří Strass on ehri-project.eu II
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 415.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strass, Jiří |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech theater actor, theater director and Holocaust victim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bohemia , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | at October 30, 1944 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |