Lin Jaldati (born Rebekka Brilleslijper; 13 December 1912 – 31 August 1988) was a Dutch-born, East German-based Yiddish singer. She was a Holocaust survivor, and one of the last people to see Anne Frank. After the war she published an article, "Memories of Anne Frank," in Joachim Hellwig and Günther Deicke's book ''A Diary for Anne Frank''. A self-professed socialist, she performed in Yiddish in the Soviet Union, China, North Korea and Vietnam from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Life and career

Lin Jaldati was born as Rebekka Brilleslijper on 13 December 1912 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the eldest of three children of Fijtje (née Gerritse) and Joseph Brilleslijper. Her younger sister was Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper. Her sister called her Lientje. During World War II, she was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

, and she survived. She was one of the last people to see Anne Frank. Jaldati was a Yiddish singer. She performed in Moscow in the late 1950s. By 1965, she performed in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and North Korea. She performed in Indonesia, Thailand, India and Vietnam in the 1970s. Jaldati was married to

Eberhard Rebling Eberhard Rebling (4 December 1911 – 2 August 2008) was a German pianist, musicologist and dance scholar as well as an anti-fascism, anti fascist. Life Childhood and young adult Born in Berlin, Rebling, who came from a Prussian officer's ...

, a German pianist and musicologist who emigrated to the Netherlands in 1936. They had two daughters,

Kathinka Rebling Kathinka Rebling (1941 - 2020) was a German violinist and musicologist. Life Rebling was born in The Hague. Her parents, the artist couple Lin Jaldati and Eberhard Rebling, had met in 1937 in the Netherlands, where Rebling had emigrated bec ...

(born 1941) and

Jalda Rebling Jalda Rebling (born 1951 in Amsterdam) is a German hazzan. A year after birth, she and her parents moved to East Germany in 1952. Her parents survived the Holocaust, and Rebling's mother and aunt, Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper, were the first to tell ...

(born 1951). From 1952, they resided in

East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...

. She was a proponent of socialism.

Death

Lin Jaldati died on 31 August 1988 in East Berlin, Germany.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaldati, Lin 1912 births 1988 deaths Musicians from Amsterdam Dutch Jews Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Jewish concentration camp survivors Dutch emigrants to East Germany People from East Berlin Yiddish-language singers 20th-century Dutch women singers 20th-century German women singers Anne Frank Jewish women singers