Willy Rosen

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]

Kurt Schwabach and Willy Rosen (right)

Willy Rosen playing a piano while singing

Stolperstein in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

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, 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)