Coco Schumann | |
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 Schumann in 2012 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Heinz Jakob Schumann |
| Born | 14 May 1924 Berlin, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic |
| Died | 28 January 2018 (aged 93) Berlin, Germany |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, bandleader, writer |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Years active | 1940's – 2018 |
Heinz Jakob "Coco" Schumann (14 May 1924 – 28 January 2018) was a German jazz musician and Holocaust survivor.[1] He became a member of the Ghetto Swingers while transported to Theresienstadt at the age of nineteen. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Schumann performed as a jazz guitarist, with Marlene Dietrich, Ella Fitzgerald, and Helmut Zacharias.
- ^ A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich remembered; p. 157 J. David Riva, Guy Stern - 2006 "Jazz guitarist COCO SCHUMANN was born into a mixed Christian/Jewish family in Berlin as Heinz Jacob Schumann. Even as a child he became a devotee of swing music, which was outlawed by the Nazi regime. As a "half-Jew," he survived the concentration camps, including Theresienstadt (Terezien), where he became a member of the legendary "Ghetto Swingers."