Jews of the Somme

Le 17 octobre 2023, à l’occasion du vernissage de mon exposition sur les Juifs de la Somme à l’Andrew Carnegie Library and Music Hall et en commemoration du 80ème anniversaire de la rafle des 4 à 8 janvier 1944 dans la Somme, des etudiants dans les cours de Dr. Kelsey B. Madsen, Professeur de Français à Grove City College, ont lu des extraits des traductions en anglais qu’ils avaient fait des textes de témoignages à la rafle. Voir http://www.jewsofthesomme.com/1944-rafle-january-49

On October 17, 2023, at the inauguration of my exhibit on the Jews of the Somme and in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of Jews in Amiens and surrounding areas on January 4-8, 1944, students of Dr. Kerlsey B. Madsen, Professor of French at Grove City College, read aloud from their English translations of French texts bearing on the Roundup. The texts of these translations as well as the texts of the original French documents appear on this website at http://www.jewsofthesomme.com/1944-rafle-january-49 — DR

On February 8, 2022, Madame Brigitte Fouré, Mayor of Amiens and Monsieur Alain Gest, President of Amiens Metropole conferred the Medal of the City of Amiens on David Rosenberg for his contributions to the memory of the Jews of the Somme. The ceremony, part in person and part virtual, was held in the Salle Jules Verne of the Amiens City Hall starting at 5 p.m. The City of Amiens made a recording of the event and authorized its publication on this site. Individuals shown have authorized use of their image. Speakers included in order of appearance : Sophie-Laure Zana, Isabelle Giraud-Jullien, Brigitte Fouré and David Rosenberg.

In early 2021, the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh provided Dr. David Rosenberg with a prompt: select 5 photographs from your research on Amiens and talk about them. This six-part mini doc series is the result of that prompt, as Dr. Rosenberg talks to Center director Dr. Lauren Bairnsfather about the stories behind the selected photos and what those stories illustrate about the larger French Jewish experience during the Holocaust.

From January 10 – February 4, 2022, the Gumberg Library at Duquesne University hosted the exhibit “Who is a Jew, Amiens, France, 1940-1945.” On Jan 26, 2022, David Rosenberg was asked to give a presentation as part of an event to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The event was virtual due to Covid restrictions and was cosponsored by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. David Rosenberg’s talk is entitled “The Making of ‘Who is a Jew?” A tale of two cities and the challenges of bringing a troubling Holocaust history home.” It appears at around minute mark 30 in the video, runs for approximately fifteen minutes and is followed by a ten minute slide presentation.