Al Rosenbaum (1926 - 2009)

Al Rosenbaum

Al Rosenbaum was an American artist and the co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia.

Al Rosenbaum co-founded the Virginia Holocaust Museum with Jay Ipson and Mark Fetter in 1997.

Rosenbaum created the sculpture of a menorah with six candles that currently stands at the museum. Each of the six candles is intended to represent one million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. Rosembaum's menorah sculpture also appears in the Virginia Holocaust Museum's official logo.

Rosenbaum produced his first one-man art show at the Valentine Museum in 1997. His work had received awards from art shows as Pennsylvania and Michigan.