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Willy Rosen playing a piano while singing

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. 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 was murdered.

Selected filmography

Notes

Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Part 4 (1986), p. 206
Silverman (2002), p. xxi
Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
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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