| LC control no. | no2006032461 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bejarano, Esther, 1924-2021 |
| Associated place | Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |
| Located | Hamburg (Germany) |
| Birth date | 1924-12-15 |
| Death date | 2021-07-10 |
| Place of birth | Saarlouis (Germany) |
| Place of death | Hamburg (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Music Anti-Nazi movement Rap (Music) |
| Affiliation | Microphone Mafia (Musical group) |
| Profession or occupation | Political activists Activists Musicians Holocaust survivors |
| Found in | 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) 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) |
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