Otto Aufrichtig

Further information on family member Otto Aufrichtig may be viewed at www.aufrichtigs.com
Otto had been a dance and ballet master, working under the professional stage name of Otto Aurich. The name Aurich had been one adopted by several artistic members of the Aufrichtig family. He went to Amsterdam in 1936 and from then until 1938 had been a member of the Fritz Hirsch theatrical troupe, meeting Alice Frankel, stage name Lisl Frank, who joined the group as a singer in 1938. Otto's subsequent credits included:

  various Dutch operette projects

  March 1939 - Rudolf Nelson Revue

  January 1941, June 1941, October 1941-February 1942 Kabarett der Prominente

  May-June 1942 Joodsche Schowburg

  March-June 1944 Westerbork stage troupe 

He was deported to Theresienstadt on 04 September 1944 and then to Auschwitz on 29 September. He was moved again, to Buchenwald, and once more miraculously survived. After the war, Otto founded the Hoofdstad Operette together with Fritz Steiner, Otto Dürer and Meije Hamel. He died in Amsterdam on 24 March 1961, and was survived by third wife, Ruth Kathan (stage name Ruth Rhoden), who died during the 1990s.

In 1999, Otto made his CD debut with the first time release of his 1939 recording Die Damenschuhe Von Zimmer Nr 20.