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She was born in Berlin.
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Her first role came in 1920 with the silent film adaptation of the novel Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses.
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She got married with the director Veit Harlan.
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From 1933, with the rise to power of the Nazis, Gerson stopped appearing publicly due to her Jewish condition. At that time he began recording Yiddish cabaret songs that became very popular among European Jewish communities, such as Der Rebe Hot Geheysn Freylekh Zayn or Vorbei.
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Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany (30th JANUARY 1933).
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Reichstag Fire Decree: declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties.
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Enabling Act.
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First boycotts of Jewish businesses. -
Approval of Civil Service Law: it removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs.
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Approval of the Education Law: it stated that Jewish students could not be more than 5% of the student population of any public school or university, being forced to leave public schools.
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Approval of the Sterilization Law: it allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children.
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Approval of the Press Censorship Law.
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Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”. -
Approval of the mandatory military service.
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Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization.
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Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”, being excluded of being accounted as German population.
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approval of the Laws of Nuremberg.
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In 1936 he had to flee to the Netherlands. He lived there until after the Wehrmacht invasion.
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Annexation of Austria.
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Jewish Name Law: it forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women.
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Sudetenland, ceded to Germany.
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Polish Jews deported from Germany.
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Kristallnacht.
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Germany annexed Czechoslovakia.
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German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression
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Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”. It would cause 250,000 deaths.
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Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II.
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Germany invaded Norway and Denmark
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Germany invaded Western Europe
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Italy declared war on Britain and France.
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First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz. -
Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliy formed.
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Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece.
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
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Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.
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Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA ented into the World War II.
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Mass murder began at Chelmno, the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.
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Wannsee Conference: approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”).
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: Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”, name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.
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Allied forces invaded North Africa.
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Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.
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German defeat at Stalingrad.
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In February 1943 she was deported to Auschwitz along with her second husband, Max Sluizer, and their two children. The four were murdered on February 14, 1943.12
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first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz.
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Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise.
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Surrender of Italy.
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Germany occupied Hungary.
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Beginning of the Normandy landings.
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Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces.
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Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe. -
Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops.
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Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops.