When the Music Stopped: Willy Rosen's Holocaust

When music is your only chance of survival

Despite his success as a renowned songwriter, composer, and cabaret player, Willy Rosen's life was interrupted when his Jewish status leads him to flee Germany to the Netherlands as a result of growing Nazi powers.

His escape to relative safety is short-lived when he is captured and deported to the Westerbork transit camp. Willy Rosen tries to avoid - or at least delay - death in a concentration camp for him and his theater group by performing for ...