Career
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. 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.
He played golf at the Bayou Desiard Country Club in Monroe, where he made a hole in one at the age of eighty-one.
Rosenberg contributed to youth athletics and the reconstruction of the Jewish Cemetery in Monroe. He found his way in a new country and reaped the benefits of this country.
He didn"t take for granted anything, and he shared plenty. I think all of us will certainly regret his loss but will admire his life.”
The senior Rosenberg remained active in the family"s business, Sol"s Pipe and Steel Company, an international company, until cancer struck.
Rosenberg died at his Monroe residence.
Interment was at the Jewish Cemetery. Sol’s Story: A Triumph of the Human Spirit by Richard B. Chardkoff, a ULM historian, tells the story of Rosenberg’s trials and triumphs. His obituary quotes him, accordingly: "I love the I’m a citizen.
I’m proud to be an American, and I’m a good American.
Nowhere in the whole world did I find happiness. I find happiness in America.".