United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection consists of a single item.
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
Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection