Rotenberg family collection
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rena and Wolfgang Rotenberg
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Ms. Rena Rotenberg and Mr. Wolfgang Rotenberg
Scope and Content
Collection of photographs depicting the Rotenberg family in Jauer, Germany and in Tientsin, China in the years 1930-1948. Collection of documents relating to Haim Szmul Rotenberg, cantor and shochet (ritual slaughterer for kashrut), his wife Rosa Deborah Pollak Rotenberg, and their two sons, Bernhard and Wolfgang, and their efforts to emigrate from Germany in 1938-1939; school certificates from Jewish school in Tientsin, China. Correspondence: letters and postcards from members of the Rotenberg and Pollak families residing in Poland, dated 1939-1941.
Subjects
- China.
Genre
- Letters.
- Photographs.
- Document
- Certificates.