Coco Schumann

Heinz Jakob "Coco" Schumann (14 May 1924 – 28 January 2018) was a German jazz musician of Jewish descent I got rhythm : das Leben der Jazzlegende Coco Schumann : eine Graphic Novel. Caroline Gille, Niels Schröder. Be.bra, Berlin-Brandenburg. 2014. pages 12-13.Archive . The Atlantic Times. May 14, 1924. and Holocaust survivor.A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich remembered; p. 157 J. David Riva, Guy Stern - 2006 "Jazz guitarist COCO SCHUMANN was born into a mixed Christian/Jewish family in Berlin as Heinz Jacob Schumann. Even as a child he became a devotee of swing music, which was outlawed by the Nazi regime. As a "half-Jew," he survived the concentration camps, including Theresienstadt (Terezien), where he became a member of the legendary "Ghetto Swingers." He was born in Berlin. He became a member of the Ghetto Swingers while in Auschwitz. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Schumann performed as a jazz guitarist, performing with Marlene Dietrich, Ella Fitzgerald, and Helmut Zacharias.

His autobiography The Ghetto Swinger: A Berlin Jazz-Legend Remembers was published in 1997.

Schumann died in Berlin on 28 January 2018 at the age of 93.

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