Willy Rosen

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

Rosen was born Willy Julius Rosenbaum in Magdeburg, Germany. 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 died.

Selected filmography

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