The Book Show

Poet, memoirist and Holocaust survivor Jacob Rosenberg died yesterday at the age of 86. He was born in Poland, in Lodz, a city known as the Polish Manchester because of its textile industry. With the German occupation of Poland, Jacob and his family were confined to the Lodz ghetto until they were sent to Auschwitz. Within a few days of arriving there, he was the only one of his family still alive. Jacob Rosenberg came to Australia in 1948 and in the years after that wrote six volumes of poetry, a book of stories called Lives and Embers and two memoirs, East of Time and Sunrise West.

East of Time won both the National Biography Award and the 2006 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

Jacob Rosenberg talked to the Book Show when Sunrise West was published last year and we're replaying part of that interview today as a tribute to him.

Publications

Title: Sunrise West
Author: Jacob Rosenberg
Publisher: Brandl Schlesinger Publishing
ISBN-13 9781 8760 4084 0

Presenter

Ramona Koval

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