His book East of Time, which was set in the Lodz ghetto where Rosenberg grew up, won the 2006 New South Wales Premier's Award for non-fiction.
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Australian Author Jacob Rosenberg has died in Melbourne at the age of 86.
Rosenberg, who won several Australian awards for his books about World War II, was buried last Thursday.
His book East of Time, which was set in the Lodz ghetto where Rosenberg grew up, won the 2006 New South Wales Premier's Award for non-fiction and the 2007 National Biography Award. The sequel, Sunrise West, which follows Rosenberg's postwar journey to Australia, won the Community Relations Award earlier this year.
Rosenberg's entire family except one sister was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz. The sister committed suicide a few days later.
His Sydney-based publisher, Brandl & Schlesinger, called Rosenberg's death a "big loss" for the literary world, according to the Australian Jewish News.
Rosenberg wrote several books as well as poetry in English and Yiddish, his mother tongue. He arrived in Australia in 1948 with his wife, Esther. They had one child.
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