Lin Jaldati (born Rebekka Brilleslijper; 13 December 1912 – 31 August 1988) was a Dutch-born, East German-based Yiddish singer. She was a

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, and one of the last people to see

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. 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

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, the eldest of three children of Fijtje (née Gerritse) and Joseph Brilleslijper. Her younger sister was

Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper Marianne "Janny" (or "Jannie") Brandes-Brilleslijper (24 October 1916 – 15 August 2003) was a Dutch Holocaust survivor and one of the last people to see Anne Frank. She is the sister of singer Lin Jaldati (born Rebekka Brilleslijper; 1912&n ...

. Her sister called her Lientje. During

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, she was deported to the

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Bergen-Belsen , or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentra ...

and the Auschwitz concentration camp, and she survived. She was one of the last people to see

. Jaldati was a Yiddish singer. She performed in

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in the late 1950s. By 1965, she performed in China and

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. She performed in

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and

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in the 1970s. Jaldati was married to Eberhard Rebling, a German pianist and musicologist who emigrated to the Netherlands in 1936. They had two daughters, Kathinka Rebling (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. She was a proponent of

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Death

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

References

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