Author Jacob Rosen-berg has died in Melbourne, Australia, at the age of 86. Rosenberg, who won several Aus-tralian awards for his books about World War II, was buried Oct. 30.
“East of Time,” which was set in the Lodz ghetto, where Rosen-berg grew up, won the 2006 New South Wales Premier’s Award for nonfiction and the 2007 National Biography Award. The sequel, “Sunrise West,” which follows Rosen-berg’s postwar journey to Australia, won Sydney’s Community Relations Commission Award earlier this year.
Rosenberg’s entire family, except one sister, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz. The sister committed suicide a few days later.
His Sydney, Australia, publisher, Brandl & Schlesinger, called Rosen-berg’s death a “big loss” for the literary world, according to the Aus-tralian Jewish News.
Rosenberg also wrote poetry in English and Yiddish, his mother tongue. He arrived in Australia in 1948 with his wife, Esther. They had one child. — jta