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Filmmaker · Czechia

Juraj Herz

Died in 2018

Juraj Herz was born on 4 September 1934 in Kežmarok, into a Jewish family; as a child he was interned with his family at Ravensbrück and liberated at Sachsenhausen, while some sixty of his relatives perished. After studying photography in Bratislava and puppetry at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, he worked at the Semafor theatre and as an assistant at the Barrandov studios. He left for West Germany in 1987 and died in Prague on 8 April 2018.

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