Lin Yaldati

Lin Yaldati was born into a family of a vegetable dealer in a poor part of the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. In 1926-1932 she attended elementary school. At the age of 14, she worked in a sewing workshop and took dancing lessons. Since 1930, she danced in the Netherlands ballet and since 1934 participated in concert programs. After the outbreak of the Civil War in Spain, Lin Yaldati joined the Communist Party of the Netherlands .

In 1937, Lin Yaldati met the pianist Eberhard Rebling , who emigrated from Berlin, whom she married in 1942. Together with him she performed with concerts of Jewish songs and dance numbers. At the same time, Lin Yaldati studied dance art in Paris with Olga Preobrazhenskaya and vocals with Eberhard E. Vekselman in The Hague . In 1941, the couple had a daughter, Katinka . After the occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, Yaldati entered the Resistance movement and in 1942 went underground with her family, performed illegal home concerts of Jewish songs and helped other persecuted Jews escape. In July 1944, Yaldati, along with her sister Yanni Brandis-Brilleslaper, were arrested and detained in the Westerbork transit camp, the concentration camp Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen , where they were the last to see Anna Frank and her sister Margot alive (the Brilleslaper sisters met sisters Frank in Westerbork). In 1945, the sisters were released from imprisonment by British troops, but no one else survived in their family in the Holocaust .

At the end of 1945, Lin Yaldati returned to the stage in Amsterdam, since 1946 she went on tour. She studied vocals with Paula Lindberg in Amsterdam. Visited the Scandinavian countries , Switzerland , Eastern Europe and Germany , where she performed in Berlin. In 1949, Lin Yaldati became a delegate to the World Peace Congress in Paris. In 1951, Lin gave birth to a daughter, Yalda . In 1952, on the advice of friends, in particular, Anna Zegers , the Rebling family moved to East Germany . A convinced communist, Lin Yaldati has long been the only official translator of Jewish songs in the German Democratic Republic, she replenished her repertoire with songs by Hans Eisler , Louis Fürnberg , Paul Dessau , folk, partisan and world songs. In 1965, Yaldati performed at the international festival of chanson and folklore in the fortress of Waldeck . She recorded numerous records, performed on radio and television. Since 1979, Lin Yaldati performed with her daughter Yalda, since 1982 - with Katinka and toured Western Europe , Israel and the USA on tour.

Lin Yaldati was an adviser to the GDR singing movement, a member of the Auschwitz International Prisoners Committee , the GDR Peace Council and the GDR Human Rights Committee . She left the scene after her 75th birthday, died in 1988 and was buried in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin.

• Lin Jaldati und Eberhard Rebling: “Es brennt, Brüder es brennt” Jiddische Lieder , Berlin 1966, 1985
• Lin Jaldati und Eberhard Rebling: “Sag nie, du gehst den letzten Weg!” Der Morgen, Berlin 1986; wieder BdWi, Marburg 1995 (Reihe Sammlung, 1) ISBN 3924684553

• 1966: Lin Jaldati singt (VEB Deutsche Schallplatte Berlin - Eterna, Best.-Nr. 8 10 024)
• 1982: Lin Jaldati - Jiddische Lieder (VEB Deutsche Schallplatte Berlin - AMIGA, Best.-Nr. 8 45 198)
• 2008: Lin Jaldati & Eberhard Rebling, Jiddische Lieder (Hastedt Verlag & Musikedition Bremen - HT 5332)

• Lin Yaldati on the Internet Movie Database
• Biography (German)