us-005578-irn702427
title: George Rosenberg papers
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/904
record resource extent: folder 1
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn702427/alternateIDs/1
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/701
record resource structure: The collection is arranged as a single folder
has record set type: Item
date: circa 1920-1942
has or had holder: us-005578
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
identifier: irn702427
has or had some members with language: deu
scope and content: The collection consists of family letters written to George Rosenberg after he fled his family home in Offenbach am Main, Germany to Brussels, Belgium on a Kindertransport in 1938, where he lived with relatives in the Orbach family. The letters include one photocopy of a letter to George from his parents Emil and Fanny Rosenberg and sister Liesel Rosenberg in 1938. The other correspondence consists of letters and postcards to George and the Orbachs from his parents and sister Ruth in Offenbach, 1941-1942 before they were deported and killed at the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942. Also included is an undated pre-war studio portrait of Emil and Fanny Rosenberg.
type: RecordSet
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/843
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn702427/acquisitions/1
biographical history: George Rosenberg was born in 1923 in Offenbach am Main, Germany to Emil (b. 12 December 1888-1942) and Fanny (née Blum, b. 1 April 1899-1942) Rosenberg. Emil had two brothers, Wilhelm and Max, and one sister, Lily. Fanny’s parents owned several large stores and she was the oldest of six children. George had two sisters: Liesel (b. 6 June 1921) and Ruth (b. 15 July 1929-1942). Around 1934, George and the other Jewish children in Offenbach were no longer allowed to attend the public school. A Jewish school was formed and he attended until 1937. After George stopped attending school he began working as an apprentice in a leather goods factory. During Kristallnacht in November 1938, George’s father Emil was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was released after three weeks on the condition that he leave Germany. The family was unsuccessful in obtaining visas, but Emil’s bother Wilhelm and his family immigrated to Australia around this time. George and Ruth went on a Kindertransport to Brussels, Belgium in 1938. George would never see his parents again. He and Ruth went to live with their relatives in the Orbach family, including Jacob and Anna Orbach and their sons Joseph, Willy, Leopold, and Arthur. Willy and Leopold owned a leather goods factory, so George continued his apprenticeship there. In early 1939 George’s sister Liesel received a visa and immigrated to England. In May 1940 the German army invaded Belgium. The Orbachs planned to flee to France, but as a German George lacked the proper identification to leave. He went to the police station to try and obtain the proper paperwork and was instead arrested and sent to Etterbek in Brussels. He was then transported to internment camps in Le Vigean and Saint-Cyprien in France. George was able write to his parents in Offenbach. He learned Henry Orbach was in the unoccupied Southern Zone of France. George and five others bribed the camp guards to escape. He went to Auch, France wher…