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 1 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 4 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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