Rafael Rolf Elsberg was born in Muenchen, Germany, 1919 to Bernhard and Roza. Prior to WWII he lived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During the war he was in France, France. Rafael Rolf survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.