Ernst L. Rosenthal Collection. 1870-1982 Bulk dates: 1939-1956

The collection contains correspondence and other documents relating to Ernst L. Rosenthal (1922- ) and his parents Bernhard Rosenthal (1882-1947), a leather merchant, and Margarethe née Jacobson (1896-1976). Most of the material is from the time period around World War Two, and includes correspondence among Ernst, living in England, his parents in New York, and their friends and family all over the world.Ernst Ludwig Rosenthal was born in Berlin in 1922. He was able to attend the Luisenstadt Gymnasium until 1938, and in August 1939 left for England on a Kindertransport. There he attended the Repton School in Derbyshire, and thereafter worked for the Birmingham Chemical Co as a food chemist. In 1947 he immigrated to the United States to join his parents, where he continued to work as a chemist.Ernst’s father Bernhard Rosenthal (1882-1947), a leather merchant, and mother Margarethe née Jacobson (1896-1976) were able to leave Germany in 1941, and traveled via Spain to New York City, where they settled in the Bronx. Margarethe’s mother Betty Jacobson née Levy died in Theresienstadt in 1943.Inventory list in fileProcesseddigitizedHesse, K. ; Lichtenstein, Rolf ; Elsom, Norah ; Rosenthal, Inge ; Michaelis, Hermann ; Stahl, Erna ; Stahl, Alfred ; Rosenthal family