us-005578-irn513151
title: Larry Rosenbach papers
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn513151/acquisitions/1
record resource extent: folder 1
has or had some members with language: pol
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1930-01-01
has record set type: Item
type: RecordSet
biographical history: Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach, 1929-2011) is the son of Aaron and Ewa Rosenbach. He was born on April 2, 1929 in Lezajsk, in Galicia Poland and went by the nickname Lajziu. His father was a shipping manager of a lumber company owned by his cousins. Lajziu's brother Asher was born two years earlier in 1927. During Eliezer's childhood, the family moved some four or five times to accommodate his father's business. Though Zionistic, the family was not religious and spoke Polish at home. Aaron belonged to a Hakoach soccer team, and the boys attended the Safa Brura Hebrew School in Tarnow, which was three railroad stops away from their village. After the start of the war in 1939, Lajziu was prohibited from attending school, thereby cutting off his formal education after only four years. In late 1941, Germans conscripted Aaron to help construct a new concentration camp in Belzec. During the construction phase, the camp was still a labor camp and prisoners were allowed limited contact with people outside. Eva came to visit her husband in a horse and cart, dressed as a Polish woman. She brought him new clothes and managed to smuggle him out and bring him back home to Irena where they were currently living. Because of this experience and since Aaron was acquainted with several Polish railroad workers, he knew that any deportation to Belzec meant death, and tried to arrange a hiding place for the family in the forest. While he was working in the forest, the Germans held a deportation action in the town on October 30, 1942. Men over 18 taken would be sent to a labor camp, and everyone else was to be"resettle" in Belzec. Quite physically fit and with their mother's encouragement, both boys managed to pass as able-bodied men despite their young ages. They never saw their mother again. When Aaron returned from the forest and learned that his family had been taken, he lost his will to survive. He was subsequently caught and murdered by the Gestapo. Lajziu and Asher…
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/701
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn513151/alternateIDs/1
scope and content: The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach) and his family, originally of Leżajsk, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs depicting the Föhrenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps in Germany, the Bielski partisans, and passengers on board the"Champollio" en route to Palestine. Also included are three postcards from Larry’s mother, Ewa Rosenbach, written in Zaklikov (Zaklików), Poland to cousins in Przemyśl, Poland describing the first deportation that occurred in her town and begging her cousins to take her two sons before the next deportation occurs.
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1951-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
identifier: irn513151