Curt Lowens

Curt Lowens (Curt Löwenstein) was a German actor born in Allenstein (East Prussia, now Poland) on 17th November 1925. Lowens, who was a Holocaust survivor, ironically, is known to have played the roles of German officers in a lot of films. He played a German colonel in Arthur Hiller's movie Tobruk (1967) and a VOPO Officer in Torn Curtain (1966). 'To Be or Not To Be' (1983), Hogan's Heroes, and 12 O'Clock High are amongst some of his other works on the same line. In June 1943, Curt and his mother were founded by the Nazi generals and sent to Westerbork. Fortunately, because of his father's connections, they were shortly released, and after that, they went into hiding individually. During his time in hiding,

Curt lived as "Ben Joosten" and had started collaborating with a group of Dutch rescuers. Together they were able to save the lives of 150 Jewish children and 2 U.S Army Air Corps flyers which called for a special acclamation from General Dwight D. Eisenhower himself. The unsung war hero Lowens did not stop at this but went on to work as an interpreter for the British Eight Corps. to assist them in capturing the Nazi leaders.

Curt Lowens, later in his documentary A Life of Changes, describes this ironic turn of events as " Unforgettable Click to look into! >> Read More... " as he recalls picking Nazi men just as he was by them. In 1947 Curt moved into the United States along with his father and step-mother and began his career as an actor after admitting himself at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... . During the years 1960-2012, he starred in almost 100 movies and TV shows, some of the famous ones being Angels & Demons (2009) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004).On 8th May 2017 at the age of 91, he breathed his last.