- Document ID: 132135443
- Document Collection: 7-14-1 Documentation of the CLI
- Link to Online Archive: https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/de/document/132135443
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#germany POB: Bensheim
#holland POR; deported from
#jew
#survivor
Gerald Rosenstein (1927 - 2016) - Genealogy (geni.com)
„Rosenstein, 68 and a San Francisco resident, was arrested as a Jew in Holland and sent to Auschwitz while in his teens. He arrived in New York with his mother and father in 1946 and moved to the Bay Area in 1949. But he didn’t come out as a gay man until the late 1970s. „It was almost demanded of me,“ Rosenstein said, referring to his involvement in both the survivor and gay communities. Rosenstein is active with the Holocaust Center of Northern California and Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, a Reform synagogue in San Francisco reaching out to gays and lesbians. He is adamant, though, in identifying himself as a Jewish survivor „who just happens to be gay. I want that very plain.“ Nonetheless, Rosenstein is working with Leno as co-chair of the San Francisco fund-raising effort for the development of the gay and lesbian archives. „There’s a belated interest in homosexual persecution during the Holocaust. I don’t think there’s been much research on the subject,“ he said. Leno hinted that the lack of research may, at least in part, be an effect of a less-than-supportive survivor community.“
Terezín Memorial (pamatnik-terezin.cz)
Interview:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504434
Gerald Rosenstein Obituary (1927 - 2016) - San Francisco, CA - San Francisco Chronicle (legacy.com)
Brother: Hans Rosenstein