Jetty Cantor

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Jetty Cantor and Rien van Nunen in Swiebertje (1964)

Jetty Cantor (born Henriëtte Frank May 16, 1903 in The Hague ; died April 23, 1992 in Hilversum ) was a Dutch singer, violinist and actress.

Life

Henriëtte Frank attended school in Germany from time to time because her mother had acting engagements there. In The Hague, she studied violin and singing at the Koninklijk Conservatorium . She had her first appearances and her first sound recordings as a singer in Berlin in German. In the 30s she appeared in the Netherlands with Louis Davids in his cabaret and with the entertainer Bob Scholte. She was married to Maurice Cantor. Her appearances at the broadcasting company AVRO came to an abrupt end when anti-Jewish measures were introduced after the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940 and the Dutch collaborators did not want to evade them.

Cantor and her husband were first ghettoized in Amsterdam and then deported to the Westerbork transit camp. There she took part in the theater evenings organized by Max Ehrlich and her husband played in the camp orchestra. In August 1944 Cantor was transferred to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where she was employed by the camp management in the prisoners' orchestra, which was also allowed to play jazz pieces that were banned in the German Reich. After her onward transport to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , she became a violinist in the camp's women's orchestra and thus survived the Holocaust .

Her husband Mozes Cantor also survived the concentration camp imprisonment. After the liberation, Cantor's health was initially very poor, so that she could not appear on stage. She focused on her own radio series, Radiostad Comedie . From 1963 to 1965 she played the role of Saartje in the popular series Swiebertje . In 1979 she received the Order of Knights of Orange-Nassau , and in 1982 she ended her career.

She has the son Jacob Cantor. In 1948 she and Mozes Cantor divorced and later married the artist Johannes Fresco.

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. 80.
  • Piet Hein Honig: Acteurs- en Kleinkunstenaars-Lexicon , 1984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westerbork, program leaflet at aufrichtigs.com
  2. ↑ a b Volker Kühn: They played for their life , at jewish theater
personal data
SURNAME Cantor, Jetty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Henriëtte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch singer, violinist and actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1992
Place of death Hilversum