This collection contains one linear foot of material and includes 105 letters between Rosenberg family members, friends, and acquaintances. It documents the firsthand experiences of a German Jewish family before, during, and after the Holocaust, and also includes the experiences of family members who emigrated from Germany in the years immediately before the Second World War. The letters were received and collected by Alfred Rosenberg, and as a result most are addressed to him and Alise Rosenberg and few are written by them.
These letters were written by various members of the Rosenberg family, particularly parents Johanna and Nathan; son Julius, b. 1900 (living in Breisach, Germany, and often writing with his fiancee Emmy); son Eugen, b. 1901 (living in Palestine with his wife Lea and a young son); son Alfred, b. 1911 (living in Brooklyn and later Pennsylvania with his wife, Alise, and her parents). The letters were received and collected by Alfred Rosenberg and donated by his son, Victor Rosenberg. In 1940 Julius, Emmy, Nathan, Johanna, and other extended family members from Breisach were deported to a labor camp in Gurs, France. Johanna died while interned there in 1941. The camp was deported to Auschwitz in August 1942, where Julius was murdered. Further information about Emmy, including her family name, is unknown. Nathan survived the war at a hospice in southern France and died there in December 1945.
