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Joseph S. Kutrzeba is a Polish-born producer who has been active in the entertainment industry since the 1950s. He is best known for producing films such as The Pianist (2002), The Reader (2008), and The Ghost Writer (2010). Kutrzeba was born on 11 October 1927 in Łódź, Poland. He studied at the National Film School in Łódź and began his career as a film editor in the 1950s. He then moved to France, where he worked as a producer for various French and international films. Kutrzeba has produced over 30 films, including The Pianist (2002), The Reader (2008), and The Ghost Writer (2010). He has also produced television series such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984) and The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986). Kutrzeba has been honored with numerous awards, including the French Legion of Honor in 2004 and the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 2006. As of 2021, Joseph S. Kutrzeba's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

Popular As Arie Fajwiszys
Occupation theater producer and director
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 11 October 1927
Birthday 11 October
Birthplace Łódź, Poland
Date of death (2013-01-24) New York, United States
Died Place New York, United States
Nationality Poland

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Who Is Joseph S. Kutrzeba's Wife?

His wife is Valerie M. Hageman (1955-1959); Michaela Lacher (from 1979)

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Parents Israel (father)Malka (mother)
Wife Valerie M. Hageman (1955-1959); Michaela Lacher (from 1979)
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Children Karen Janina

Joseph S. Kutrzeba Net Worth

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1995

He recorded his oral history on May 18, 1995 for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

1994

Kutrzeba wrote in his memoir in May 1994: "During the first days of September 1942, at the age of 14, I jumped out of a moving train destined for Treblinka, through an opening (window) of a cattle car loaded to capacity with Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. Wandering over fields, forests and villages, at first in the vicinity of Wołomin, and later of Zambrów, I found myself, in late November, in the area of Hodyszewo (near Łomża). Throughout my wandering, the peasants for the most part were amenable to put me up for the night and to feed me—some either suspecting my origins or pressing me to admit it."

1980

He was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for best producer of the rock opera The Lieutenant. Kutrzeba remarked that the reason he decided to produce The Lieujtenant was "The show meant a lot to me on human values. I think the theme is one of cardinal importance to our times: The concept of obedience versus exercising one's own conscience." He won the Bronze Award in the International Film and TV Festival in New York for the documentary film "Children in the Holocaust" with Liv Ullmann, 1980 (English and Polish versions). He produced Helena: the Emigrant Queen, 1996 at La Mama and Kosciuszko Foundation. He is the author of the book The Contract: A Life for a Life.

1979

Kutrzeba was married twice, the first time to Valerie M. Hageman, from September 1955 to 1959, with one child, Karen Janina. He was married again on January 14, 1979 to Michaela Lacher.

1977

Kutrzeba was a member of a teenage resistance group in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He escaped and met a priest, Reverend Stanisław Falkowski, who gave him the patriotic Polish name of Joseph Kutrzeba. He found him work as a cowherd with neighboring farmers and helped him get Catholic ID papers. In 1977 Falkowski was honored by Yad Vashem, the international Holocaust heroism remembrance authority. The story of Kutrzeba and Falkowski's fifty year friendship was told in the documentary "Messengers of Hope: The Hidden Children of the Holocaust", produced by Jeff Kamen, Jonathan L. Kessler and Joseph Kutrzeba.

1950

Kutrzeba came to the United States in 1950 and served with the U.S. Army in the Korean War (5 decorations; 2 battle stars) and graduated from Yale Drama School in 1956 on 3 scholarships (M.F.A) and N.Y.U (Ph.D.) in 1974.

1927

Joseph S. Kutrzeba (born Arie Fajwiszys in Łódź, Poland, October 11, 1927 and died in New York City, January 24, 2013) was a Polish-American theater producer and director.

1887

Kutrzeba was the son of Israel Fajwiszys, a composer, and Malka (Hakman) Fajwiszys, both of whom perished in the Holocaust, along with their daughter, Kutrzeba's sister. Israel Fajwiszys was born in 1887 in Yampil, Ukraine. Having graduated from a music conservatoire, he led the choirs of the progressive synagogues in Brody and Tarnów. After studying in Vienna, he was also the leader of the Kraków Tempel Synagogue choir. He came to Łódź from Lviv in 1922 and he became a teacher in both girls' and boys' schools of the Jewish Secondary Schools Society. He was the co-organiser of a singing society "Szir". After the outbreak of World War II he moved to Warsaw, where he volunteered to help an underground military organisation. In the ghetto, with Kutrzeba, he organised a children's choir. Kutzreba's father Israel wrote the music to the poem M'khol Masada by Yitskhok Lamden. In 1937 Israel's girls' chorus won first prize in an all-Poland choral competition. Later in the Warsaw Ghetto, he would lead the children's choir in performances of the song recounting the Jewish resistance and sacrifice under Roman rule.