Object numberM2012/005:033
DescriptionOfficial letter from the Jewish Community in Vienna to Gertrud Rosenbaum in Sydney, 17 February 1965, concerning compensation claims. A collection of correspondence concerning restitution to Gertrud Rosenbaum for the imprisonment of her husband Leo in Dachau, following Kristallnacht, has been donated. Only this letter has been accessioned; the other letters can be found in the file.
It is not clear how much she received. There are pages concerning an aid fund for political persecuted living abroad, saying they will receive 4,000 Schilling (in 1967: for those who haven't received any monetary help) and again 1,400 Schilling (in 1968). The first letter states that they have more than 30,000 applicants for financial help.
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 (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.
It is not clear how much she received. There are pages concerning an aid fund for political persecuted living abroad, saying they will receive 4,000 Schilling (in 1967: for those who haven't received any monetary help) and again 1,400 Schilling (in 1968). The first letter states that they have more than 30,000 applicants for financial help.
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 (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 1965-02-26
Object nameofficial correspondence
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- length: 295.00 mm
width: 210.00 mm
Language
- German
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Patricia Bull