Rosenberg, Yaakov ben Gershon, Born in Poland, survived Holocaust at Auszwitz, then immigrated to Australia

Jacob G. Rosenberg was born in Lodz, Poland, the youngest member of a working-class family. After the Germans occupied Poland he was confined, with his parents, his two sisters and their little girls, to the hermetically sealed Lodz Ghetto, from which they were eventually transported to Auschwitz. With the exception of one sister (who committed suicide a few days later) all the members of his family were gassed on the day of their arrival. He remained in Auschwitz for about two months, then spent the rest of the war in other concentration camps. In 1948 he emigrated to Australia with his wife Esther. Their only child, Marcia, was born in Melbourne. Rosenberg’s poetry and prose have been published in both Australia and overseas, and a number of poems have been translated into Hebrew and Russian. Lives and Embers is his first prose collection in English.