Holocaust survivor/hero/SAG actor/friend Curt Lowens passed away Monday night at age 91. His absence in the pre-dawn still leaves a void that is palpable — a disturbance in the Force — and one less hero whose presence in my life changed me and others. He set us off on a path of activism as we tried to leverage his example to make a difference in our world as he made a difference in his.
My reflections of Curt are deeply personal. I didn’t as much meet him as experience him.
I was with my friend Sharon Farber, a four-time Emmy-nominated film and television composer who was a companion and caregiver to Curt in his last days after his second career playing small roles in TV shows and films like Ron Howard’s “Angels & Demons.”