Object numberM2012/005:017
DescriptionLetter from the Danish Red Cross, Prisoner of War Correspondence Division, to Sergeant Leo Rosenbaum, 14 February 1918, informing him that the file he requested could not be found (?).
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, having being arrested on Kristallnacht; 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, having being arrested on Kristallnacht; 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 placeSt Petersburg, Russia
Production date 1918-02
Object nameofficial correspondence
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- length: 210.00 mm
width: 130.00 mm
Language
- German Telegram address:
Bellibria.
No. I476
Petrograd, on I/14th February 1918, Chessonskajano 13
Mr. Leo Rosenbaum, Sargent.
Balachna
In answering ? your honorable from 7/25.cr? we inform you, that we didn’t get any telegram from you from the Danish Consulate to transfer it, & it is easily possible that such was lost!
So would you like to have the kindliness to send us the same again and we are going to arrange everything else.
With regards
???
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Patricia Bull