WW1 IC 2 Oskar Rosenthal , Duisburg-Hamborn

[numis]

Years ago I acquired the following as a pair on a postal auction in Cape Town:

WW1 Iron Cross 2nd Class + War Honour Cross 1914-8 with Swords.

The latter has a certificate ( # 13693/35 issued on 14-3-35 by the Chief of Police of D-H )  named to Oskar Rosenthal , a Kaufman in Duisburg-Hamborn .

Is there any way of verifying that O.Rosenthal was awarded the IC2 ?

Also: is there way of establishing whether  or not OR was a Jewish refugee to Cape Town as there was a   migration there in the late 1930s of German Jews escaping Nazism?

[BlackcowboyBS]

If there is no regiment where you may find some awardee lists or old newspapers where at the beginning of the war names were printed it is nearly impossible to prove it. As far as I know there is no list with all awardees of the ic2 of ww1.

[The Prussian]

Hello!

I wonder, how the book would look like, if there were all IC2 listed. In WW1 ca. 5.196.000 crosses were awarded...

I couldn´t find him in the casualty lists. There are 8 Oskar Rosenthal, but no-one born in Duisburg.

There is only one with no home-town listed, but he served with a Silesian regiment (700km from Duisburg...)

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/997734

I don´t believe, that´s him. So probably he was not wounded during the war.

 

Edited January 9, 2023 by The Prussian

[numis]

Thank you for the responses above 

 

[numis]

OR proved to me a German Jew who migrated to S.Africa circa 1936 and who was stripped of German citizenship in 1939 on the grounds of being Jewish