us-005578-irn699004
has or had some members with language: spa
record resource structure: The collection is arranged as a single series. Folder 1 of 4. Rosendorn, Anny, 1945-1946 Folder 2 of 4. Rosendorn, Hersz photograph, undated Folder 3 of 4. Rosendorn, Salek, 1945-1947 Folder 4 of 4, oversize folder 1. Immigration to Bolivia, 1947-1960
biographical history: Salek Rosendorn (Salomon, 1913-1972) was born on 25 August 1913 in Łódź, Poland to Hersz and Masha Rosendorn. He had seven siblings: Abraham, David (d. 1940), Ida (b. 1905), Leon (b. 1908), Malka (b. 1899), Mietek (b. 1902), and Noah. Hersz was a tailor and all of his children learned the trade. Salek’s brothers Abraham and David moved to Berlin in 1919 to open a tailor shop called Rosendorn Brothers. As antisemitism increased in Germany, the brothers decided to immigrate to Bolivia. David arrived in La Paz, Bolivia in 1938 and arranged visas for his partner Maria Schulczewski and their son Ramon (b. 1935); Abraham, his wife Hermina Vigdorovitz, and their daughter Anny (b. 1933); Hermina’s mother Rosa Vigdorovitz (née Rosendorn); and Hermina’s brother Arpad, his wife Borish, and their son Louis. The family members arrived in La Paz in May 1939 aboard the Italian ship Virgilio. In July 1939, with the assistance of the Jewish aid organization Sociedad de Protección a los Immigrantes Israelitas, Abraham and David opened a high end tailor shop for women called Sastrería Berlín. In January 1940 Salek sent to the Łódź ghetto. He was also briefly in the Starchowice ghetto, possibly as a forced-laborer. In August 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz. He was transferred to the Althammer subcamp in December 1944, and then the Dora-Mittelbau subcamp of Buchenwald. After liberation he went to the Neustadt displaced persons camp in Holstein, Germany. He was active in helping other Jewish refugees and became the chairman of the Jewish Welfare Committee, chairman and president of the International Welfare Advisory Council, and a member of the Central Jewish Committee, Bergen-Belsen. While at Neustadt, Salek met Anny Rozencwaig, who worked as his secretary while the chairman of the Central Jewish Committee. They married in 1946. In May 1947 they immigrated to La Paz, Bolivia to join his brothers and their families. Like his brothers, Salek was a tailor, and he opened his own tailor sh…
title: Salek and Anny Rosendorn papers
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/701
type: RecordSet
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: eng
has record set type: Item
has or had some members with language: heb
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1960-12-31
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/278
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn699004/acquisitions/1
identifier: irn699004
has or had some members with language: deu
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/904
scope and content: The collection documents the post-war experiences of Salek and Anny Rosendorn, both originally from Łódź, Poland, including their lives as refugees in the Neustadt displaced persons camp from 1945-1947 and their immigration to La Paz, Bolivia in 1947. The collection primarily consists of identification cards and documents regarding Salek’s work with the Jewish Welfare Committee, the International Welfare Advisory Council, and the Central Jewish Committee. Other material includes poems authored by Anny on Jewish Committee stationary, a certificate identifying her as a former prisoner of Stutthof, paperwork for Salek and Anny’s immigration to Bolivia in 1947, and an undated photograph of Salek’s father Hersz Rosendorn.
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1945-01-01
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn699004/alternateIDs/1
record resource extent: folders oversize folder 4 1