Willy Rosen (1894 – 1 October 1944) was a German-Jewish composer, songwriter, and renowned cabaret player.Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Part 4 (1986), p. 206 Rosen was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 October 1944.Silverman (2002), p. xxiSmelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744
Rosen was born Willy Julius RosenbaumSmelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744 in Magdeburg, Germany.Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 744 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.Smelik & Pomerans (2002), p. 731
Selected filmography Marriage in Trouble (1929) The Tender Relatives (1930) Moritz Makes his Fortune (1931) Holzapfel Knows Everything (1932) Manolescu, Prince of Thieves (1933)
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Sources 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