Willy Rosen

Kurt Schwabach and Willy Rosen (right)

Willy Rosen playing a piano while singing

Stolperstein in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Willy Rosen (1894 – 1 October 1944) was a German-Jewish composer, songwriter, and renowned cabaret player.[1][2] Rosen was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 October 1944.[3][4]

Rosen was born Willy 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 was murdered.[7]

Selected filmography

• Marriage in Trouble (1929)
• The Tender Relatives (1930)
• Moritz Makes his Fortune (1931)
• Holzapfel Knows Everything (1932)
• Manolescu, Prince of Thieves (1933)

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