us-005578-irn516493
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
date: 1945 August
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: yid
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 904
has or had subject: 43
has or had subject: 483
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn516493
record resource extent: folder 1
record resource structure: The Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection consists of a single item.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection consists of a handmade book which was created by liberated inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The book was presented Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum in 1945. It includes a photograph of liberated prisoners as they are about to emigrate to Palestine as well as lines from a song by Mordecai Geburtig sung in the ghetto in Kraków, Poland, and a song about Buchenwald by Percy (Peretz) Brand. Translation: Page 2, in Yiddish and English:"Isaiah 21-12;/Watchman, what of the night?/Watchman, what of the night?/The Watchman said:/The morning cometh,/and also the night-/If ye will inquire/inquire ye;/return, com" Page 4, in German four bars of music entitled"Buchenwald. K.Z"/P. Brand
title: Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection