Object numberM2012/005:008
DescriptionPostcard from Leo Rosenbaum incarcerated in Dachau, to his wife Gertrud, on official concentration camp stationery, dated 19 November 1938. In it he describes that he is doing well. He sends his new "address" in Dachau, and tells her that she he has to write with ink, asking the family to answer his postcards with postcards, his letters always with letters.
This item is part of a collection of letters, documents and photographs belonging to Gertrud Rosenbaum, a Viennese Jew who escaped to England in July 1939. After the war she immigrated to Australia. Included in the collection are letters from her husband, Leo Rosenbaum, who perished on 2 January 1939, age 46, in Dachau concentration camp; Red Cross messages of 25 words only to and from Gertrud in Cambridge to her mother Ida Deutsch, her sister Valerie (Vally) Darebnik, Rudi (her brother), and Quicki (unknown) in Vienna, spanning the years 1939 to 1943; and Red Cross communications between Leo Rosenbaum and his father Adolph in Vienna during Leo’s military service in WWI, including a photo of him in Egypt in front of a pyramid.
This item is part of a collection of letters, documents and photographs belonging to Gertrud Rosenbaum, a Viennese Jew who escaped to England in July 1939. After the war she immigrated to Australia. Included in the collection are letters from her husband, Leo Rosenbaum, who perished on 2 January 1939, age 46, in Dachau concentration camp; Red Cross messages of 25 words only to and from Gertrud in Cambridge to her mother Ida Deutsch, her sister Valerie (Vally) Darebnik, Rudi (her brother), and Quicki (unknown) in Vienna, spanning the years 1939 to 1943; and Red Cross communications between Leo Rosenbaum and his father Adolph in Vienna during Leo’s military service in WWI, including a photo of him in Egypt in front of a pyramid.
Production placeDachau concentration camp
Production date 1938-11-19
Object namepostcards
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- length: 105.00 mm
width: 150.00 mm
depth: 1.00 mm
Language
- German
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Patricia Bull