Willy Rosen

Willy Rosen (1894–1944) was a German-Jewish composer, songwriter, and renowned cabaret player.[1][2] Rosen was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 01 October 1944.[3][4]

Rosen was born Julius Rosenbaum[5] in Magdeburg, Germany.[6] In 1942, Rosen was incarcerated in the Westerbork transit camp, and in 1944 deported to Theresienstadt on 04 September 1944 and then on to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 29 September, where he died.[7]

Selected filmography

Notes

  1. ↑ Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
  2. ↑ Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies , Part 4 (1986), p. 206
  3. ↑ Silverman (2002), p. xxi
  4. ↑ Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
  5. ↑ Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
  6. ↑ Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
  7. ↑ 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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