Jan Fischer, also Jan Fišer (19 July 1921, in

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) was a Czech Jewish actor and theatre director. During World War II he was transported to the Jewish ghetto at Terezín where he directed plays. Fischer survived the death camps and returned to Prague after the war to marry his wife Hana (Meissl). Their daughter was the actress Taťana Fischerová. The artist Franz Peter Kien sketched Fischer in the role of I. P. Omelet in the Terezin production of Gogol's "The Marriage."http://www.makarovainit.com/theatre.html "In that pitch darkness, poetry was living. We read verses to each other, the world of imagination was saving us. It was our world, and the other, real one, in these minutes went far away. Alas, not so far… Nobody was normal, neither we, nor our public, let alone the time and place of the happening. In this situation theater gained a different, extraordinary dimension. Culture became the limit of our existence, the world of the highest freedom that we could ever reach. Jan Fischer, actor in Terezin, theater director"

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