Jacob G. Rosenberg was born in 1922 in Łódź, Poland and grew up as the youngest member of a working-class family.
After the Germans occupied Poland, he was confined with his parents, two sisters, and their little girls in the Łódź Ghetto until they were sent to Auschwitz.
He wrote collections of poetry and prose but it was his two volumes of memoirs East of Time (2005) and Sunrise West (2007) which won him awards and nominations.
In the same article Melbourne poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe said, "Rosenberg was a noble soul, 'one who swallowed nobody's easy answers or solutions.
'"[2] The Sydney Morning Herald in its obituary described him as, "...a poet, storyteller and author who lived through one of history's darkest nightmares, and in his writings created a passionate and unique testament.