Kurt Schwabach and Willy Rosen (right)
Willy Rosen playing a piano while singing
Stolperstein in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Willy Rosen (1894 – 1 October 1944) was a German-Jewish composer , songwriter , and renowned cabaret player.[ 1] [ 2] Rosen was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 October 1944.[ 3] [ 4]
Rosen was born Willy Julius Rosenbaum[ 5] in Magdeburg , Germany.[ 6] In 1942, Rosen was incarcerated in the Westerbork transit camp , and in 1944 deported to Theresienstadt on 4 September 1944 and then on to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 29 September, where he was murdered.[ 7]
Selected filmography
Notes
^ Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
^ Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Part 4 (1986), p. 206
^ Silverman (2002), p. xxi
^ Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
^ Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
^ Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
^ Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 731
Sources
Smelik, K. A. D.; Pomerans, Arnold , Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 , William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company , 2002. ISBN 978-0-8028-3959-6
Silverman, Jerry, The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust , Syracuse University Press , 2002. ISBN 978-0-8156-0708-3
Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Part 4 , World Union of Jewish Studies, 1986
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