Alma Rose: Haftlingsfrau Nr. 50831

Alma Rose was born into a very musical Jewish family in Vienna. Her father was concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic and her uncle was Gustav Mahler. She herself was an accomplished violinist. She married a Dutchman, and while attempting to flee through to Switzerland, was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. There she directed the women's orchestra of prisoners, and died in the concentration camp in 1944