resting_place death_place death_date children birth_place religion footnotes |birth_date spouse article_title name occupation
jewish cemetery in monroe , louisiana monroe , ouachita parish , louisiana , usa 30 january 2009 joe rosenberg warsaw , poland jewish -lrb- in monroe , louisiana , determined to tell the holocaust 1 story through his charter membership in the national holocaust museum -rrb- and his biography '' sol 's story : a triumph rosenberg of the human spirit '' . -lrb- 2 -rrb- rosenberg was was a leader among the small jewish congregation in monroe a dedicated to the restoration of the jewish cemetery , where businessman he and his wife are interred . and philanthropist 1926 2 2 tola death -rrb- barron rosenberg -lrb- married ca. 1946-2006 , her sol rosenberg
 sol rosenberg businessman ; philanthropist
sol rosenberg

sol rosenberg -lrb- february 2 , 1926 -- january 30 , 2009 -rrb- was a polish-born american businessman and philanthropist .
he was a jewish survivor of the german nazi death and concentration camps who became an industrialist and philanthropist in monroe in northeastern louisiana .
after the german invasion of poland of 1939 rosenberg lived in the warsaw ghetto set up by the nazi occupiers of poland .
the german nazi regime sent his parents and two sisters to their deaths in 1942 , but rosenberg was one of the very few to escape from the death camp at treblinka ; he returned to warsaw , where he participated in the warsaw ghetto uprising .
rosenberg was then sent to the dachau concentration camp , where he was liberated by the allied powers after the final overthrow of the nazi regime .
in poland , rosenberg met his wife , the former tola baron -lrb- june 22 , 1924 -- january 12 , 2006 -rrb- .
the couple emigrated to louisiana in 1949 and thereafter settled in monroe were they started sol 's pipe and steel co. from scratch .
