Henriette (Jetty) Frank

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Cabaret in the Face of Death By Volker Kühn. : Jetty Cantor of Hilversum, the grand old lady of the Dutch cabaret, sang as well during all her life against the sorrow inflicted upon her, first the Amsterdam Ghetto theatre, in which the SS herded the Jews together to send them in cattle wagons on the transport to the East, then in the KZ, in Westerbork and Theresienstadt. There she bid her sister with her two young children farewell, a farewell for good. In autumn 1944 she herself came to Auschwitz: “First they took my violin away. Then I saw those huge flames and the smoke. I thought that this is the kitchen for all the many thousand people. But it was the gas chamber. And then I was called to the rehearsal. Rehearsal? In Auschwitz? Yes, they said, we should play, in front of the gas chamber. I can’t do this, I said. Just imagine: my family or friends go into the oven and I play music to it. Then they fetched me.” She does not know how she survived the prison of death. She never did. And she never understood what actually happened. “One day they told me: you are a Jewess. I did not really know what that means. I had never been in a synagogue.” When she was freed, she was only skin and bones. Months later she still could only walk with the help of crutches. “I spent the most beautiful time of my life in Germany, I went to school there when my mother played theatre there. And I always loved Germany. It hurt twice as much that it was Germans who did all this to me.” She knows the Berlin of the early 1930s, recorded records there and sang for the German radio. Richard Tauber gave her a precious ashtray as a present. Joseph Schmidt, also famous in those years, had a box of chocolate made for her because she sang “Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel” (A star falls down from the sky), his lied, so impressively. She admits today that she preferred to co-operate with German artists. “They are always so accurate, on time and precise. Willy Rosen was like that as well. He wrote the most beautiful songs for me. A fantastic man, a true artist. But all of them were like that.” Kamp Westerbork, de film By Rudolf Werner Breslauer (4 July 1903 – middle Europe, 28 February 1945) was a German photographer of jewish descent. Westerbork Serenade: From 1942-1944, some of Berlin’s greatest stars performed at Westerbork, thereby delaying their transport to death camps. Based on interviews with survivors, David Natale portrays songs and vaudeville sketches that were actually staged in the camp revues. Albert Konrad Gemmeker (* 27. September 1907 in Düsseldorf; † 1982) war ein deutscher SSObersturmführer und Lagerkommandant des Durchgangslagers Westerbork. Op een avond in mei (On an evening in May, 1937) Bob Scholte & Jetty Cantor Een leven lang 03 mei 1983. Jetty Cantor interview (Dutch radio)

Music and the Holocaust: The well-established Jewish community living in the Netherlands on the eve of World War II was almost totally annihilated by the Nazis in the space of just a few years. For the vast majority of these Dutch citizens, their last moments on the soil of their homeland was on the 'Boulevard of Misery’, the central street of the transit camp Westerbork that led from the camp to the train station. Within the walls of the camp lived a Jewish community divided into two: the ‘privileged’ long-term residents, the German Jews, and the short-term inmates, the tens of thousands of Dutch Jews. Inequalities in power and prestige led to tension between these two groups, although ultimately both were to die in large numbers at the hands of the Nazis. One of the most unique facets of life in Westerbork was the remarkable cultural scene that developed there, including what some characterised as the best cabaret in all of Europe within its prison walls, with major stars such as Max Ehrlich, Franz Engel, Camilla Spira, Kurt Gerron, Erich Ziegler and Willy Rosen. Theater in Holland: A Cultural Refuge During the Holocaust - Part 1 Theater in Holland: A Cultural Refuge During the Holocaust - Part 2 Music and the Holocaust: Auschwitz. The orchestra’s primary task was to accompany prisoners marching to and from work, so that the marching rhythm would allow ease of control over the prisoners. The musicians were originally required to play outside regardless of the weather, although in later years, they were allowed to play indoors during rain and snow. The orchestra was also required to play for the SS guards on Saturdays, and to perform long Sunday concerts for the pleasure of camp commander Hoess and his family and friends. The orchestra had a high turnover rate. In addition to the generally high death rate in Auschwitz -- musicians were not freed from their daily labour assignments -- there was also a high suicide rate, due perhaps to the emotional pressure of the context. Over the years, the orchestra acquired more instruments and sheet music. In 1942, Nierychlo was released in order to serve in the German army, and he was replaced with the far more popular Polish musician Adam Kopyciński, who held the post until the orchestra was dissolved. In addition to the orchestra, there was a variety of other SS-sponsored music at Auschwitz. Some SS officers employed individual ‘musical slaves’, who were required to play or sing whenever commanded to. One such prisoner was the Italian tenor Emilio Jani, whose memoirs are titled My Voice Saved Me. Another was Coco Schumann, who recalled years later that the music could save you: if not your life, then at least the day. The images that I saw every day were impossible to live with, and yet we held on. We played music to them, for our basic survival. We made music in hell. Gabriele Knapp. Music as a Means of Survival: The Women’s Orchestra in Auschwitz

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Henriette Frank

• Netherlands, Civil Births, 1811-1915
• Birth: May 16 1903 - 's-Gravenhage, South Holland, Netherlands
• Parents: Meijer Frank, Sophia de Jong

Bruidegom: Mozes Cantor

• Geboorteplaats:Amsterdam
• Leeftijd:21
• Beroep:violoncellist
• Vader van de bruidegom:Jacob Cantor
• Moeder van de bruidegom:Lena Schnitzler
• Bruid:Henriette Frank
• Geboorteplaats:'s-Gravenhage
• Leeftijd:20
• Vader van de bruid:Meijer Frank
• Beroep:pianist
• Moeder van de bruid:Sophia de Jong
• Gebeurtenis:Huwelijk
• Datum:woensdag 9 april 1924
• Gebeurtenisplaats:Amsterdam
• Echtscheiding 02-01-1950.