Kurt Rosenkranz (2 August 1927 – 13 March 2024) was an Austrian adult educator.
His Jewish parents and grandparents had emigrated from Eastern Europe to Vienna.
[2][3] The Rosenkranz family fled to Riga, but when the German troops arrived there, the members of the Rosenkranz family were transferred to Soviet camps and interned first at Novosibirsk in Russia, then in Karaganda in Kazakhstan.
In 1946 Kurt Rosenkranz returned to Vienna to work with his father in their small shoe factory.
His brother Herbert Rosenkranz worked as a historian at Yad Vashem.