Stanley, Ilse, 1906-1970

LC control no.	no2012094251
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Stanley, Ilse, 1906-1970 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Davidsohn, Ilse Friedricke, 1906-1970
Birth date	19060311
Death date	19700719
Place of birth	Gliwice, Poland
Place of death	Boston, Mass.
Found in	The unforgotten, 1957: title page (Ilse Stanley) verso title page (Ilse F. Stanley) Wikipedia, via WWW, July 2, 2012 (Ilse Stanley; a German Jewish woman who, with the collusion of a handful of people ranging from Nazi members of the Gestapo to other Jewish civilians, secured the release of 412 Jewish prisoners from concentration camps between 1936 and 1938; during that time she also helped countless others leave the country while it was still possible for German Jews to do so legally; this story was sketched publicly in 1955 on Ralph Edwards's television program, This Is Your Life, and is told in Stanley's autobiographical book, The Unforgotten, which was published in the United States in 1957; born Ilse Friedricke Davidsohn on March 11, 1906 in Gleiwitz, Germany; graduated from the Auguste-Victoria-Schule in Charlottenburg at the age of fifteen; after graduation she continued to study theatre history and theatre science at the Theatre Science Institute and at the Berlin University, while working part-time as a bookkeeper and office manager; later she studied acting and directing at the Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater (Berlin) and elsewhere; married Alexander Intrator in 1932 and Milton Stanley in 1946; came to the United States in August 1939; died July 19, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts)