Dave P. <imbibe@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Holocaust Survivor, Who Hid in a Sewer, Headed U.S. Tech Firm
> By James R. Hagerty, Apr. 22, 2022, WSJ
>
> At age 16, Carl H. Rosner already had endured the breakup
> of his parents? marriage in Hamburg, Germany, life in an
> orphanage with other Jewish children, the Nazi-decreed
> closure of his school, harassment by stone-throwing ruffians
> in the street, and a cattle-car ride to the Buchenwald
> concentration camp. ?I was always optimistic,? he said later.
> ?I figured this couldn?t last, that the Germans couldn?t succeed
> at what they were doing.? In early April 1945, with Nazi Germany
> nearing collapse, that optimism was put to a severe test. All Jews
> in the camp were ordered to gather for a roll call. The young man
> suspected some kind of atrocity awaited them. He sought advice
> from an older prisoner, Erwin Lippmann, who had become his
> unofficial guardian. Mr. Lippmann steered Carl and his younger
> brother into a sewer, where they hid for a day or two.
>
> Within days, U.S. troops liberated Buchenwald. Carl Rosner found
> his way to Sweden and in 1952 emigrated to the U.S., where he
> worked as a research engineer at General Electric Co. and for
> 3 decades headed Intermagnetics General Corp., which supplied
> materials for magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, equipment.
> Mr. Rosner died April 16 at his home in Niskayuna, N.Y. He was 93.
>
> Karl Heinz Rosner, the first of 3 sons, was born April 4, 1929,
> in Hamburg. (He later changed the spelling of his first name to
> Carl.) His mother, Rahel Rosner, ran a bedding store with help
> from his Romanian-born father. His parents divorced, and his
> mother sought ways to emigrate with her sons as Nazi persecution
> of Jews increased. The youngest son, Eliot, was sent to Sweden as
> part of the Kindertransport program. Ms. Rosner followed him there,
> leaving 9-year-old Carl and his 8-year-old brother, Joseph Wolfgang,
> to live in an orphanage while awaiting a chance to emigrate.

Any relation to Amelia?
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