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Bejarano, Esther, 1924-2021

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Personal name headingBejarano, Esther, 1924-2021
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Associated placeAuschwitz (Concentration camp)
LocatedHamburg (Germany)
Birth date1924-12-15
Death date2021-07-10
Place of birthSaarlouis (Germany)
Place of deathHamburg (Germany)
Field of activityMusic Anti-Nazi movement Rap (Music)
AffiliationMicrophone Mafia (Musical group)
Profession or occupationPolitical activists
Activists Musicians Holocaust survivors
Found inWir 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)
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)