Moshe Rosenzweig, 45 years old. Moshe was born a son of a Rabbi and thus followed his father footsteps choosing the same occupation. He lived with his wife and his parents in Rzeszów in southeast Poland. After the Nazi had defeated the Polish army and conquered the cities, like many other Jews and political opponents of the Nazis, Moshe Rosenzweig and his family were deported to a concentration camp, in their case to Auschwitz near the Polish town Oswieçcim. He was separated from his parents, his wife and his daughter.

Moshe Rosenzweig' s parents and his daughter were killed in the gas chambers soon after their arrival in Auschwitz. Moshe and his wife were forced to work. Moshe worked in the industrial complex in Monowitz, his wife in a armament factory in Kattowitz, about 60 kilometers from the main camp Auschwitz.