Overview
- Interview Summary
- Zelman Rosenberg, born in 1919 in Edinet, Moldova, discusses his siblings and parents; his family’s successful soap factory in Edinet, which they closed down in 1940 after the Russians occupied Bessarabia; his family’s move in June 1940 to Chernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), where they continued to make soap; his family’s imprisonment; his family’s agreement to teach the court’s president and the colonel's wife how to make soap out of sunflower oil, which saved his family from being sent to Transnistria; nearly being drafted into the Russian Army but avoiding it; being sent to do forced labor in a mine and building highways and bunkers with the stone; his family being forced to make soap in Chernowitz; being liberated from Doaga, Romania; going with his family to Bucharest, Romania; getting married to Jeana Paves; moving to Israel in 1950 for six months before immigrating to Bogota, Colombia, where his parents and siblings had already moved; and the Rosenberg brothers rebuilding their soap factory.
- Interviewee
- Zelman Rosenberg
- Interviewer
- Mr. Jack Borenstein
- Date
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interview:
2004 December 05
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jack Borenstein
Physical Details
- Language
- Spanish
- Extent
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1 digital file : MPEG-4.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Forced labor. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish businesspeople. Jewish families. Jews--Moldova--Edinet. Men--Personal narratives. Soap factories. Soap trade. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Moldova. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Ukraine.
- Geographic Name
- Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine) Bogotá (Colombia) Bucharest (Romania) Causeni (Moldova) Chernivtsi (Ukraine) Columbia--Emigration and immigration. Doaga (Romania) Edinet (Moldova) Falticeni (Romania) Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Rosenberg, Zelman, 1919-2011.
- Corporate Name
- Doaga (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Jack Borenstein donated the interview with his grandfather Zelman Rosenberg to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2019.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:04:57
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