Willy Rosen
Illustration — Kurt Schwabach and Willy Rosen (right) • Illustration — Willy Rosen playing a piano while singing • Illustration — Stolperstein in Berlin-Wilmersdorf Willy Rosen (1894 – 1 October 1944) was a German-Jewish composer, songwriter, and renowned cabaret player. Rosen was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 October 1944. Rosen was born Willy Julius Rosenbaum in Magdeburg, Germany.
Willy Rosen
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- Born
- 1894 · Magdeburg.
- Died
- 1944 · Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp.
- Nationality
- German Reich
- Occupation
- composer · songwriter · cabaret performer · lyricist · actor · writer · pianist · musician
- Fields
- cabaret · cabaret music · acting
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Kurt Schwabach and Willy Rosen (right) • Illustration — Willy Rosen playing a piano while singing • Illustration — Stolperstein in Berlin-Wilmersdorf Willy Rosen (1894 – 1 October 1944) was a German-Jewish composer, songwriter, and renowned cabaret player. Rosen was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 October 1944. Rosen was born Willy Julius Rosenbaum in Magdeburg, Germany.
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In 1942, Rosen was incarcerated in the Westerbork transit camp, and in 1944, deported to Theresienstadt on 4 September, and then on to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 29 September, where he was murdered.
• Marriage in Trouble (1929) • The Tender Relatives (1930) • Moritz Makes his Fortune (1931) • Holzapfel Knows Everything (1932) • Manolescu, Prince of Thieves (1933)
"Stolperstein" (stumbling block), Willy Rosen, Cicerostraße 55, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Germany
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1944
Willy Rosen died at Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp.
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- 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
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Smelik, K. A. D.; Pomerans, Arnold, Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.
- Silverman, Jerry, The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust, Syracuse University Press, 2002.
- Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Part 4, World Union of Jewish Studies, 1986
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Willy Rosen is recorded with the occupation cabaret performer. Recorded as composer, songwriter, cabaret performer, lyricist and actor.
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