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- Birth nameOtto Wasserzug
- Otto Wallburg was born on February 21, 1889 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Congress Dances (1931) and The Song Is Ended (1930). He died on October 29, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- The Nazi period gave him a hard time too. His application for integration within the Reichskulturkammer was refused.
- The strong emaciated and diabetic Otto Wallburg was brought into KZ Westerborg, afterwards he was deported via KZ Theresienstadt to KZ Auschwitz. There he was killed at the end of 1944.
- In 1937 he emigrated to the Netherlands and one year later they withdrew the German nationality from him in a public announcement.
- The security which Wallburg found in the Netherlands didn't take long. In 1940 the German Wehrmacht marched into the Netherlands. A life in the underground began for Otto Wallburg. He and his wife Ilse Rein could avoid an arrest wave in 1943 but fell victim to a denunciation and were arrested early in 1944. An eight-month lasting life of suffering began.
- In 1934 he emigrated to Vienna where he found work at Joe Pasternak's Universal Production.
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