be-002157-kd 00974
type: RecordSet
archival history: On 7 October 2013, Lili alias Liliane Rosenberg-Leignel permitted Kazerne Dossin to archive and digitise five photographs in this collection.
biographical history: Lili Rosenberg was born on 15 September 1932 in Croix, France. Her parents were Josef Rosenberg (born on 21 June 1893 in Sataalyanzhely) and Charlotte Keller (born on 27 October 1900 in Sataalyanzhely). Lili was the second of three children from the Rosenberg-Keller family, living with brother Robert (born on 17 December 1933) and André (Dédé) (born on 28 April 1940). The first years of her life Lili lived in Roubaix with her family. Her parents Josef and Charlotte were Hungarian Jews, who came to France before her birth to escape from the anti-Semitic persecutions in their home country. A few years later however, Nazi rule knew no more borders. On the night of 26-27 October 1943, it was calm on Boulevard d’Armentières 42 in Roubaix. Before sleeping the Rosenberg children were very happily excited, because the next day they would celebrate the birthday of their mother. Charlotte, Lili, just 11 years old, Robert, almost 10 years old, and André, 3 and a half years old, prepared the occasion with love. They learned poems and made drawings while father Josef managed to find a pie and flowers. But then, around 3:30 AM, the Feldgendaarmerie came looking for the Rosenberg-Keller family. They had barking dogs and yelled “Los! Schnell!” while destroying everything on their path on their way to the bedrooms up the stairs. As the family was forced out of their home, André took with him his yellow wooden duck on a string and hugged it tightly, as the elderly couple that lived on the ground floor, who were looked at as de facto grandparents, looked on with a glare without mercy on their face. The Rosenberg-Keller family was shipped on a military truck and brought to the prison of Loos, near Lille. There they stayed for two or three days when they were moved again to the prison of St-Gilles near Brussels, packed with many in small cells. After another day, the family was transported to Mechelen/Malines to the Dossin Barracks, where they were all registered on 30 October 1943. The…
location of copies: Digital copy available as collection KD_00974 at Kazerne Dossin.
publication note: LEIGNEL Lili,"Je suis encore là" Copymedia, 2017. KELLER-ROSENBERG Lili, “Et nous sommes revenus seuls,” Plon, 2021.
accruals: No further accruals are to be expected
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
conditions of use: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
date: prewar-wartime
has or had holder: be-002157
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had subject: 598
has or had subject: 519
has record set type: Collection
identifier: KD_00974
record resource extent: 10 digitised images (5 photos)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection contains 5 (reprints of) photographs showing the Rosenberg-Keller family before and during the Second World War: Josef Rosenberg, Charlotte Keller, André Rosenberg, Robert Rosenberg and Lili Rosenberg.
title: Rosenberg-Keller family. Collection