The Holocaust in Germany: Individual Experiences--Erich Rosenberg (1928-41)


Figure 1.--Here we see Erich in 1929. He would have been about 5 years old. Note the large white collar and floppy bow. We would guess that he had not yet been orghaned. His clothes suggest that he came from a family in comfortable circumstances.

Erich Rosenberg was born in 1924 at Rotherbaum, Hamburg, Germany. The photograph here shows a happuy, well dressed little boy playing with a hoop (figure 1). The clothing seem a bit old fashioned for 1929. We are not sure what happened to his parents, but Erich was orphaned. Erich at the time of World War II lived at an orphanage at Hamburg and was deported in 1941 with other Jewish orphans to Riga, Latvia. The NAZIs after the invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941) set up a ghetto there for Jews. The Riga Ghetto was a relatively small one. Erich and the other orphans soon after their arrival were murdered along with the othervJews in the Ghetto by the NAZIs.






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