Warsaw Ghetto

Testimony of Sol Rosenberg

Sol Rosenberg was born as Salek Rosenberg on November 18, 1926 in Warsaw, Poland to Froim and Hajah Rosenberg. He had two sisters: older - Frania and younger Tobcia. Before the World War II both his parents worked as bakers. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 Sol lived in the Warsaw Ghetto set up by the Nazi occupiers. In 1942 his parents and two sisters were sent to Treblinka death camp, where they died, but Sol was one of the very few to escape from that death camp. He returned to Warsaw, where in April 1943 as a ZOB solder he participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After Uprising Sol was captured by Germans and sent to Majdanek concentration camp, then to Skarżysko-Kamienna concentration and labor camp, Czestochowa concentration camp and when Russian Army came closer to Poland he was deported to Buchenwald and finally he took part in Death March to Dachau, where he was liberated by US Army in April 29, 1945. Soon after liberation Sol met his wife, Tola née Baron. The couple got marry in Germany and emigrated to USA, Louisiana in 1949 and thereafter settled in Monroe where they started Sol's Pipe and Steel Co. from scratch. Sol Rosenberg was involved in community affairs and charitable works, being one of the founders of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Holocaust Museum Houston. He had 3 sons: Joseph, Jackie and Herman and two daughters Jeanne and Terri. Sol and Tola Rosenberg had 12 grandchildren. Sol died on January 30, 2009 in Monroe.


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