Overview
- Description
- 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 - Date
-
creation:
1945 August
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Wallace Rosenbaum
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection consists of a single item.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Immigrants--Jewish--Israel--1940-1950. Concentration camp inmates. Soldiers--United States. World War, 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Geographic Name
- Germany.
- Personal Name
- Rosenbaum, Alexander H. Brand, Percy. Geburtig, Mordecai.
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Wallace Rosenbaum donated the Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosebaum collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-04-01 11:42:13
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn516493
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