Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection
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
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creation:
1945 August
- Genre/Form
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Scrapbooks.
- Extent
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1 folder
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Wallace Rosenbaum
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Record last modified: 2021-11-10 12:59:07
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