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Rose, Maurice, 1899-1945

 Person

Biography

Maurice Rose was born in 1899 in Middletown, CT to Orthodox Jewish parents Rabbi Samuel and Katy Rose. The family moved to Denver, CO in 1902 when Maurice was three. After graduation from highschool, Maurice Rose enlisted in the United States army when he was 15 and fought under General Pershing. At the beginning of World War I he was a second lieutenant and by the end of the that war he was a captain. After World War I, Maurice Rose briefly worked as a salesman, but then re-enlisted. He stayed in the army and attended various military schools. After fighting in North Africa and Sicily, Rose was sent to command forces during the D-Day Normandy invasion as a Brigadier General. In August of 1944, Rose was promoted to the rank of Major General and was given command of the 3rd Armored Division. The 3rd Armored Division captured Rotgen, the first German city to fall to the Allies. During the Battle of the Bulge, the 3rd Amored Division's tanks battled the advancing German Panzers. After capturing Cologne in early March of 1945, the division drove more than 90 miles into German territory on March 29, 1945. However, the next day, March 30, General Rose was killed in action. Prominent Jewish businessmen who were planning to build a new Jewish hospital, decided to name the hospital General Rose Memorial Hospital. The major fundraiser for the hospital was Max Goldberg who was a long-time editor of the Intermountain Jewish News. General Eisenhower laid the cornerstone of the hospital on August 31, 1948.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Box 5, 1930-1945

 File — Box B366.02.0005: Series B366.02 [Barcode: U186023257406]
Identifier: B366.02.0005
Abstract

The box contains a scrapbook with photographs of Maurice and Virginia Rose and their son Roderick. There are also photographs of Samuel, Katy and Arnold Rose. The scrapbook has cream-colored covers and is 15x12.5x2 inches.

Dates: 1930-1945

Box 7, 1945-1946

 File — Box B366.02.0007: Series B366.02 [Barcode: U186023257422]
Identifier: B366.02.0007
Abstract

The scrapbook was created by the General Rose Memorial Association. The scrapbook contains correspondence, fund raising material and construction photographs of the General Rose Memorial Hospital.

Dates: 1945-1946

Christening of Major General Rose Airplane., circa 1950

 File
Identifier: B207.02.0004.0005
Abstract

Photographs of Katy Rose christening the Gerneral Major Rose airplane, including photographs of her with a christening bottle.

Dates: circa 1950

Print of General Maurice Rose Painting, 1949

 Item
Identifier: B366.02.0002.00001
Abstract Contains a print of oil painting of General Rose by Misha Podryski that was painted in 1949. The print is on a painter's canvas attached to a wood frame. The original painting was placed in the lobby of General Rose Memorial Hospital. Sometime in the 1970s it was removed and placed in storage. After 1995, the painting was displayed in the office of the Rose Community Foundation. In 2019, the painting was rededicated and placed in the lobby of Rose Medical Center in honor of Rose Hospital's...
Dates: 1949

Tombstone and Exhibit Photographs, 1950-2019

 File
Identifier: B366.02.0004.0004
Abstract

Photograph of original Star of David grave marker that was replaced by tombstone with a cross and photographs of Marshall Fogel and others at a Maurice Rose exhibits.

Dates: 1950-2019