In 1934 she divorced her Jewish husband under duress from the Nazi authorities.
During the Second World War she signed a statement swearing Spira was not the real father of her daughter Camilla Spira, who was being held at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.
[1] Shortly after Lotte Spira received news of her ex-husband's death in a concentration camp in Yugoslavia, she died of natural causes, aged 60.
Her other daughter Steffie Spira, also an actress, managed to escape into exile.
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