Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Wallace Rosenbaum
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Wallace Rosenbaum donated the Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosebaum collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
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, come" Page 4, in German four bars of music entitled "Buchenwald. K.Z."/P. Brand
System of Arrangement
The Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection consists of a single item.
People
- Rosenbaum, Alexander H.
- Brand, Percy.
- Geburtig, Mordecai.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Soldiers--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Immigrants--Jewish--Israel--1940-1950.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Scrapbooks.