Object numberM2012/005:028
DescriptionPhotograph of a burial in a cemetery, presumably that of Leo Rosenbaum's who was murdered in Dachau concentration camp, in January 1939. The open grave is surrounded by mourners.
This item is part of a collection that consists 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 been 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 (presumably 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 that consists 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 been 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 (presumably 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 placeVienna, Austria
Production date 1939-01
Subjectfunerals, Dachau concentration camp, burial, ritual prayer, funerals
Object namephotographs
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- length: 85.00 mm
width: 140.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Patricia Bull