{"id":12986,"date":"2023-03-22T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/esther-bejarano\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:53:08","slug":"esther-bejarano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/biographies\/esther-bejarano\/","title":{"rendered":"Esther Bejarano"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"12986\" class=\"elementor elementor-12986 elementor-8355\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-388b6d60 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"388b6d60\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a155193\" data-id=\"a155193\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3aeb2d8f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3aeb2d8f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Esther Bejarano<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-629944c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"629944c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">(born 1924 in Saarlouis \u2013 died 2021 in Hamburg)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-76399e9a elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"76399e9a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4d3e5910\" data-id=\"4d3e5910\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ef0429a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6ef0429a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\"Keep silent no longer when injustice happens. Show solidarity! Help each other! Take heed of the weakest! Stay brave! I trust in the youth, I trust in you! Never again fascism\u2014never again war!\"*<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-241626cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"241626cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Esther Bejarano survived Auschwitz, fought into old age against fascism and came to be involved in Rap gegen Rechts (Rap Against the Right). Esther Bejarano was born into a German-Jewish family in the mid-1920s. When the Nazis seized power, her father Rudolf Loewy was convinced that Adolf Hitler would not hold on to it for long and that the spectre of fascism would soon be over. While her two older siblings fled to Palestine and the USA in 1937, Bejarano stayed behind with her parents. The situation of the German Jews continued to deteriorate, however, and soon it was no longer possible to leave the country. In 1939, Bejarano&#8217;s parents were murdered in Kovno by the Nazis. On 20 April 1943, Esther Bejarano was deported from Berlin to Auschwitz; here, the prisoner number 41948 was tattooed on her arm, and she was forced to play for the block elders, becoming part of the &#8220;girls&#8217; orchestra&#8221;. Eventually, the Nazis transferred them from Auschwitz to the Ravensbr\u00fcck concentration camp, sending them on a death march shortly before the end of the war. On 3 May 1945, Bejarano was liberated by American troops and emigrated to Israel in the same year. She returned to Germany in 1960 and settled in Hamburg, where she joined the Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes \u2013 Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten (abbr.: VVN-BdA, Eng.: Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime) and became an active anti-fascist. Together with the Cologne rap group &#8220;Microphone Mafia&#8221;, she recorded the album per la vita in 2012; another album followed shortly thereafter. Within three years, the band gave more than 150 concerts. Esther Bejarano died surrounded by family and friends on 10 July 2021.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-776f9e49 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"776f9e49\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>*Hein, F. and Stoll, S.: &#8220;Ihre Stimme wird uns mangel&#8221; (Her Voice Will Be Missed), in:J\u00fcdische Allgemeine, 10\/07\/2021.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7c492a8f\" data-id=\"7c492a8f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55e64ae1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"55e64ae1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Esther-Bejarano.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-8357\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Esther-Bejarano.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Esther-Bejarano-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Credits: Senatskanzlei Hamburg<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Bejarano (born 1924 in Saarlouis \u2013 died 2021 in Hamburg) &#8220;Keep silent no longer when injustice happens. Show solidarity! Help each other! Take heed of the weakest! Stay brave! I trust in the youth, I trust in you! Never again fascism\u2014never again war!&#8221;* Esther Bejarano survived Auschwitz, fought into old age against fascism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":13018,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12986","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13051,"href":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12986\/revisions\/13051"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}