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Jack Garfein
Director
- Born
- July 2, 1930
- Died
- December 30, 2019 (age 89)
- From
- 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…
