Bejarano, Esther, 1924-2021

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Name (Hebrew)
בז'רנו, אסתר, 1924-2021
Name (Latin)
Bejarano, Esther, 1924-2021
Other forms of name
Bejarano, Esther, 1924-
Date of birth
1924-12-15
Date of death
2021-07-10
Field of activity
Anti-Nazi movement
Music
Rap (Music)
Occupation
Holocaust survivors
Musicians
Political activists
activists
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 6007295
Wikidata: Q1370012
Library of congress: no2006032461
Sources of Information
  • Bejarano, Esther. Erinnerungen, 2014:title page (Esther Bejarano) jacket (Chair of the Auschwitz-Komitees Deutschland; active as a speaker and performing musician in combating former Nazis and right wing radicalism)
  • New York times, viewed online, July 16, 2021(obituary published July 15, 2021: Esther Bejarano; born Esther Loewy, December 15, 1924, in Saarlouis, in southwestern Germany; died Saturday [July 10] in Hamburg, Germany, at age 96; played accordion in the women's orchestra at Auschwitz; later she formed a band with her children to sing antiwar and Jewish resistance songs and, in her 80s, joined Microphone Mafia, a German hip-hop group that spread an antifascist message; spoke out against fascism and racism, using music as well as words)
  • Wir leben trotzdem : Esther Bejarano : vom Mädchenorchester in Auschwitz zur Künstlerin für den Frieden, 2005, c2004.:p. 12 (b. 15 Dec. 1924 in Saarland) p. 4 of cover (Holocaust survivor; moved to Hamburg in 1960)
  • Wir leben trotzdem : Esther Bejarano : vom Madchenorchester in Auschwitz zur Kunstlerin fur den Frieden, 2005, c2004.:p. 12 (b. 15 Dec. 1924 in Saarland) p. 4 of cover (Holocaust survivor; moved to Hamburg in 1960)