Records for Solamon Rosenbaum (32693426) - 83rd Infantry Division Documents

Name	Rosenbaum, Solamon
Rank	Private First Class
Army Serial #	32693426
State	New York
Date of death	1944-07-16
Plot, Row, Grave	J, 26, 11
Cemetery	Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France , Google Maps
Unit	I Company, 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division
Awards

Additional information
The following information was provided by Renee Steinig: Solamon Rosenbaum was born in Jasien (now Yasen, Ukraine), a village then in Poland. On December 23, 1938, when he was 16, Solamon arrived in the United States, aboard the SS Pilsudski, sailing from Danzig. According to the ship's manifest, he was to join his uncle Harry Weitzner in Brooklyn. By June 1942, according to his World War II draft registration card, he was working for Weitzner & Rabinowitz, a fur company owned by Harry, another uncle, and a partner. Sol * as he was called in America * entered active service on December 23, 1942, four years to the day after he arrived in New York. By then, his mother Chawa and his two half sisters, Feiga and Hadassah, had been deported to Bolechow, a larger town about 40 miles northwest of Jasien. According to a cousin*s testimony to Yad Vashem, they perished in Bolechow that year * probably in the Nazi *Aktion* in September 1942, when about 1,500 Jews were murdered in a three-day rampage and about 2,000 more were sent to the Belzec death camp. On 4 November 1943, at Fort Leonard Wood in Pulaski County, Missouri, Sol married his sweetheart, Esther Gordon. They were married for eight-and-a-half months when he died of injuries suffered at the battle of Normandy.

Morning reports
1944-05-01	PVT	Promoted to Private First Class as of May 1, 1944		I / 331	view page
1944-07-13	PFC	Severely wounded in action and transferred to 42nd Field Hospital on July 13, 1944		I / 331	view page

General Orders
GO #	Rank	Award	Page
331 / 1944 / #7	PFC	Good Conduct Medal awarded for exemplary behavior, efficiency, and fidelity.	view page
331 / 1944 / #9	PVT	Combat Infantry Badge awarded for exemplary conduct in action against the enemy in France.	view page