Willy Rosen
Appearance
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
- Marriage in Trouble (1929)
- The Tender Relatives (1930)
- Moritz Makes his Fortune (1931)
- Holzapfel Knows Everything (1932)
Notes
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
Categories:
- 1894 births
- 1944 deaths
- People from Magdeburg
- German cabaret performers
- German composers
- German songwriters
- Jewish composers
- Jewish songwriters
- German civilians killed in World War II
- German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
- 20th-century German musicians
- German Jews who died in the Holocaust
- European composer stubs
- Songwriter stubs
- Holocaust stubs
- Jewish biography stubs