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- The strange one
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Mukachevo, Zakarpatskaya oblast, USSR [now Ukraine]
Jakob Garfein[1] (July 2, 1930 – December 30, 2019) was an American film and theatre director, acting teacher, and a key figure of the Actors Studio. Growing up in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia during the rise of Nazism,[2] Garfein was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 13 and survived 11 concentration camps. In 1946, as an orphaned teen, he was among an early group of Holocaust[3] survivors to…
Known for
- The Wild One — Self2023
- An Organization of Dreams — Self2009
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jack
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Mukachevo
- Place of death
- United States
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Image
- Jack Garfein (1957).png
- Number of children
- 4
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- date of birth
- 1930-07-02
- Commons category
- Jack Garfein
- place of detention
- Auschwitz
- date of death
- 2019-12-30
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- leukemia
- member of
- Actors Studio
- significant person
- Samuel Beckett
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