Geraldine Sherman (Canadian Radio Producer And Journalist)
Geraldine Sherman (born Geraldine Judith Schoenmann) known as Dena Hammerstein, is a British actress and writer, and theatre producer. She was the third wife of James Hammerstein, and after his death became president/CEO of James Hammerstein Productions Ltd. Early life Sherman was born in Staines, Middlesex. Her parents were refugees from Czechoslovakia. Her father Kurt Wilhelm Schoenmann was born in Teplitz in BohemiaThe Kingdom of Bohemia was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire until both were dissolved in 1918 at the end of World War I, when Bohemia became part of Czechoslovakia in 1915. He married Edith Peller, later coming to Britain to escape Nazi persecution, but was interned in March 1940 because his nationality was Austrian. He was then transported to Australia on the Dunera#The Dunera Boys, infamous 1940 ''Dunera'' voyage, and held in Loveday and Tatura List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Australia, internment camps until 1942. Notes: Actress Writer ' ...
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