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]

  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