Yitschak and Sheindel Gitel Rosenberg and family
Reb Yitschak (b. Feb 2 1889 in Rzecniow) son of Bracha /Ruchla Wajnberg and of Dov Magid Rosenberg -a descendant of Dov Ber ben Avraham of Mezeritch , also known as the Maggid of Mezeritch/
Reb Yitschak married Sheindel Gitel ( b. July 7 1908 in Siennno) daughter of Arie (Leib) Dov Glickstein (Gliksztajn) . The family lived on Sienkiewicza 20 in Ostrowiec.
Their children who died in Holocaust were:
Yosef (Josek - b. March 15 1911) who married in April 21 1942 Dwojra-Gitla Horowicz (b. OCt 23 1910 in Ostrowiec )
Rabbi Gerszon (Moshe Gershon) (b. 1913) , Rosh Yeshiva of Ozarow and Sandomierz (Zosmir)
Avraham Yaacov - he was 14 years old when sent to Treblinka
Yitschak was murdered by the Nazis on the street while returning from visiting a mourning house . His wife and 3 of their 5 sons were sent to their death in Treblinka.
The 2 surviving sons were:
Yechiel (b. Jan 10 1915 in Ostrowiec). Yechiel Rosenberg met Sonja Kropp Wlodimir Volinski) after the war in Berlin . They married there, moved to Munich and later to Brazil.
Efraim (Froim b. Jan 20 1920 in Ostrowiec) .After the Holocaust, he was active in Zionist activities. Efraim was 4 years in Munich: from 1945 until he immigrated to Israel in June 1949. He was the secretary of the central committee of the association of general Zionists in Germany and also the secretary of the kibbutz branches in Germany that trained the Jews for agricultural work before immigrating to Israel.
He lived in Israel from June 1949 with his wife and family until he passed away on Jan 3, 1990.
Yechiel (Chil) Magid Rosenberg was very involved in writing about Ostrowiec and had 7 articles written in the Ostrowiec Yizkor book of 1971 in the following pages: 141, 165, 170, 218, 220, 322, 326 . He passed away in 1970 , in his early 50's.
Meeting of Ostrowiec Survivor friends !
During the visit of Chaskiel Korenwasser (later known in France as Charles Corrin-also a survivor from Ostrowiec) to São Paulo, Brazil around 1965, he visited his Ostrowiec friends.
In above picture , he is seen at factory of Chil Magid Rosenberg. His Ostrowiec friend Chiale Kramer was also there. . Left to Right: Chaskiel Korenwasser (Charles Corrin), Chil Magid Rosenberg, Chiale Kramer
Explanation of photo: Hermann Goring Werke was the German name of the famous Zaklady Ostrowieckie Steel factory, where Ostrowiec survivors were slave laborers. Here the survivor friends, prepared a "fake" sign with title "H.G. Werke", in front of Chil Magid's factory . Also on the sign are the words "Obole E Zoide" . Zoide was Chiale Kramer's nickname.
