Ernst Traugott Rosenzweig Collection

The Ernst Traugott Rosenzweig Collection contains personal papers, photographs, and correspondence. The family papers include official documents such as Ernst's American passport and Social Security card as well as a Hebrew scroll. In addition, there are a number of documents from his time in Germany and the United Kingdom.

The bulk of the collection is comprised of personal papers, namely official documents and correspondence between Ernst and his parents, Louis and Grete Rosenzweig née Kaufmann. The majority of this correspondence is from 1954 to 1958. The official documents originate from Germany, England, and the United States and comprise of identification and work documents as a gardener and groundskeeper, including letters of recommendation and information about his coursework at a trade school. The oversized folder contains Ernst's certificate of identity from 1946, his ticket from Hamburg to New York on the Hamburg-Amerika line from 1939, a newspaper article from Die Wiedergutmachung from 1958 entitled Die gefährdete Anerkennung des Ausbildungsschaden (The endangered recognition of education claims), and his application for pension from the German government for victims of the Nazi regime.

The collection's photographs contain photographs from Ernst’s time in the United Kingdom, photographs of his parents, and of his sister Irmgard’s wedding in 1952.