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 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
- 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
- Composers who died in Nazi concentration camps
- Songwriters who died in the Holocaust
- 20th-century German musicians
- German Jewish people who died in the Holocaust
- Jewish musicians who died in the Holocaust
- Jewish writers who died in the Holocaust
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