Esther Philipse

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Esther Jeanette Zwaap-Philipse (born February 15, 1913 in Rotterdam , † October 8, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a Dutch singer and actress.

Life

Esther Philipse was the daughter of David Joseph Philipse and Judith Frieser. She married the doctor Salomon Zwaap and had two sons with him. Philipse made her first appearances in the Netherlands as a young artist.

After the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940, she and her family were imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp in 1943 for racist reasons . There she took part in the theater evenings designed by Max Ehrlich . On September 6, 1944, she was transported to the Theresienstadt ghetto . On October 6, 1944, she was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and murdered with her sons on arrival. Her husband was murdered in Auschwitz on October 1, 1944, and her parents in July 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp .

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 270.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westerbork, program leaflet at aufrichtigs.com
  2. ↑ Esther Zwaap-Philipse ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at holocaust.cz @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 109.123.214.108
personal data
SURNAME Philipse, Esther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philipse – Zwaap, Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp