General Maurice Rose Collection

Maurice Rose was born in 1899 in Middletown, CT to Rabbi Samuel and Katy Rose. The family moved to Denver, Colorado 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. 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. 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 in 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. Newspaper articles collected by Marshall Fogel on General Maurice Rose and the naming of Rose Hospital.

This collection includes photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence, research materials, a book about Rose Hospital and a book about General Rose.