1. Charlotte Charlaque was a German-American actress.
13 Facts About Charlotte Charlaque
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Charlotte Charlaque was an early trans activist and one of the first people to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
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Charlotte Charlaque was born the second child of a German-Jewish family in Berlin-Schoneberg.
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The misleading statement that Charlaque was born in Mahrisch Schonberg in what is the Czech Republic is based on Charlaque's repeated efforts after 1933 to disguise her origins so that she would not be handed over to Nazi Germany as a German Jew or Jewish trans woman.
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Charlotte Charlaque initially grew up in Berlin, where her father ran a manufactured goods shop.
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Charlotte Charlaque emigrated to the United States in 1901, and his wife and two children followed him the following year.
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Charlotte Charlaque first went to Chicago and from there to New York City, where she trained as a violinist.
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Charlotte Charlaque was in a relationship with Ebel and the two women lived together from around 1932.
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Charlotte Charlaque was arrested by the Prague immigration police on March 19,1942, after the authorities found out that she was Jewish.
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Charlotte Charlaque was originally supposed to be interned in Theresienstadt and an identification card had already been created for her.
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Charlotte Charlaque arrived in New York on July 2,1942, where she remained for the rest of her life.
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Charlotte Charlaque was dependent on poor relief for long periods and suffered from poor health.
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Charlotte Charlaque died completely impoverished in New York on February 6,1963.