Arthur Rosenberg, historian, politician, writer Nachlaß Rosenberg, Arthur (1889-1943); historiker, politiker, schriftsteller (Fond 641)

Arthur Rosenberg (1889-1943) was a German-Jewish Marxist historian, politician, and writer. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933 Rosenberg was dismissed from his university post due to his Jewish ethnicity. Rosenberg emigrated first to Switzerland before moving on to the United Kingdom. From 1934 to 1937 Rosenberg taught history at the University of Liverpool. He proceeded to the United States in 1937 to take a professorship at Brooklyn College, where he taught and wrote until the end of his life. Arthur Rosenberg died 7 February 1943 in New York City. Arthur Rosenberg was known as an author under the pseudonym "Historikus" of "Der Faschismus als Massenbewegung," first published in 1934.

Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 641. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2006.