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James Bauer (1884–1940) was a German film director. Following the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, he emigrated first to Spain and later to Argentina, where he directed several films until his death in ...
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Lydia Kindermann (1892–1953) was a Polish mezzo-soprano opera singer who from 1917 sang principally in the opera houses of Graz, Stuttgart, Cologne, Berlin and Prague. As a Jew, fearing the rise of Nazism ...
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Eugen Szenkar (Hungarian: Szenkár Jenő; 9 April 1891 – 25 March 1977) was a Hungarian-born German-Brazilian conductor who made an international career in Austria, Germany, Russia, and Brazil. He ...
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Ellen Marx (born Ellen Pinkus: 24 March 1921 – 11 September 2008) was a human rights activist. She was born in Germany and emigrated to Argentina, arriving in May 1939: she never saw her parents again ...
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Margit Oelsner-Baumatz (born 1938) is a psychologist, educator, rabbi, and feminist. Born in Wrocław, Germany, the family emigrated to Argentina to escape the Nazi regime. Though Oelsner was not religiously ...
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Chaim "Efim" Schachmeister (22 July 1894 - 6 October 1944) was a German violinist and bandleader. He also recorded under the pseudonyms Sascha Elmo and Joan Florescu.
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Guido Beck (August 29, 1903 – October 21, 1988) was a physicist born in what was then the town of Reichenberg in the Kingdom of Bohemia (Austria-Hungary), and is now Liberec in the Czech Republic. He ...
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Hans Jacoby (1898–1967) was a German art director who designed the film sets for many German productions. He worked for a number of companies during the Weimar Era, notably Bavaria Film, Terra Film and ...
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Julius Klausner (born as Jehuda Klausner on March 10, 1874 in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary; died on September 8, 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was the founder of the Leiser shoe company.