Deb Filler

Deborah Rachel "Deb" Filler (born 30 October 1954) is a New Zealand born writer/performer, character artist and producer. Born to a German Jewish mother, Ruth Filler](born Ruth Adler in Hildesheim, Germany), and Sol (Schaja) Filler, a Polish Jewish father from Brzozow]in Galicia, who survived Plascow, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt concentration camps. Her maternal grandparents fled from Germany to New Zealand in 1938 (her maternal grandfather's family's history can be traced back to the late sixteenth century in Germany). The family lived in Obernkirchen and Hildesheim. Jüdisches Leben in der Provinz]is a book written about the Adler family history in Obernkirchen as well as other Jews from the province of Schaumberg with a contribution by Filler]