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
''When It's Over'', by Geraldine Sherman and Eduardo Machado: : Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut: playreading 1985–1986, workshop 1986–1987 : Finborough Theatre, London, 23 October – 16 November 1991 ''Thin Ice'', 1995 filmTheatre producer
Philanthropist
Dena Hammerstein worked as a volunteer in New York City hospitals for over 15 years, and in 2003 received the United Hospital Funds New Leadership Group's Humanitarian Award.Board of ''Only Make Believe''Personal life
In 1970, a choreographer friend invited her to holiday in New York where she met Jamie Hammerstein. Married theatre director James Hammerstein who directed her in ''Butley'', and has one son Simon Hammerstein (born 1977).Notes
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