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- Camilla Spira was born on March 1, 1906 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950) and Laubenkolonie (1930). She died on August 25, 1997 in Berlin, Germany.
- She emigrated together with her husband and two children to Amsterdam in 1938, but the whole family was deported to concentration camp Westerbork in 1943. Only the perjury of her mother, the actress Lotte Spira, that the Jewish actor Fritz Spira wasn't her father helped her to get free again.
- She survived the bad time of World War II and in 1947 she was able to return to Berlin again where she could carry on her theater career.
- Her promising career was abruptly stopped by the National Socialists. As a Half-Jewess she wasn't allowed to play on German stages, only entrances on the stage of the Jewish culture federation were permitted.
- Sister of actress Steffie Spira
- Daughter of Lotte Spira and Fritz Spira.
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