Albert G. Rosenberg

Albert Rosenberg, 96 – June 10, 1918 – December 22, 2014 UTEP Professor, Liberator of Buchenwald, Champion of the Poor and Minorities Relatives, Edmond and Lenore Cahn, secured his release and immigration from Nazi German in 1937 after a brutal beating by storm troopers. 28 members of his family died in the Holocaust. Albert volunteered for newly formed Psychological Warfare Division and formed elite, multilingual force reporting directly to General Eisenhower. Missions included storming beaches of Normandy and impersonating a fully uniformed Nazi soldier to secure information from captured German soldiers. His team often went behind enemy lines to rendezvous with Allied resistance fighters. He used his fluency in German, English and French to translate German intelligence, interrogate German prisoners and use that information to prepare materials that would demoralize German soldiers. He led the intelligence team that entered Buchenwald to document atrocities. An estimated 54,000 people died at Buchenwald. The Buchenwald Report was a key source for the Nuremberg and Dachau war crimes trials. Upon return to US, Rosenberg earned an MSW in community organizing. In successive assignments in Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans and Dayton, he distinguished himself by securing the trust of African American leadership and by implementing programs designed to bridge racial lines, provide equal opportunity, restore a sense of community. In 1950, married to Ginger Rosenberg; three children: Jonathan 1957, Barbara 1960 and Timothy in 1965. Joined the faculty of UTEP in 1980 to create a community organizing curriculum coupled with inner city practicums. Praised by students and alumni for resilience and inner strength and the personal life experience he brought to the classroom. Thereafter he was employed as a therapeutic caseworker by Hospice of El Paso. In 1979 married to Lourdes Gomez Rosenberg. He is survived by his daughter, Barbara Fredrickson, son in law, Ronald Fredrickson, stepdaughter, Lourdes Rosenberg, step grandson, Andreas Rene Rosenberg and by the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of Edmond and Lenore Cahn who had become Albert’s new family upon arriving from Germany at the age of 19. Funeral Services will be held on January 9 at 11:00 am at Sunset Funeral Home, 950 N. Carolina Drive, El Paso followed by an Internment at 1:00 pm at Ft. Bliss Cemetery, 5200 Fred Wilson Drive, Ft. Bliss, TX, 79924. (915) 564-0201. Services entrusted to Sunset Funeral Home-East.