A Gypsy In Auschwitz
How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’
by Otto Rosenberg
Pub Date 11 Oct 2022
Octopus Publishing US, Monoray
Biographies & Memoirs | History | Nonfiction (Adult)
I am reviewing a copy of A Gypsy in Auschwitz through October Publishing U.S, Monoray and Netgalley:
Otto Rosenberg is a poor but happy nine year old boy living in Berlin, when his family is detained. . All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis , leaving behind schools, jobs, friends, and businesses to live in forced encampments outside the city. One by one, families are broken up, adults and children disappear or are 'sent East.
When Otto is fifteen he arrives in Auschwitz aged 15 and is later transferred to Buechenwald and Bergen-Belsen. He works, scrounges food whenever he can, witnesses and suffers horrific violence and is driven close to death by illness more than once. He also joins an armed revolt of prisoners who, facing the SS and certain death, refuse to back down. Somehow, through luck, sheer human will to live, or both, miraculously he survives.
The stories of the Sinti and Roma who suffered in Nazi Germany. But Otto shares his haunting story with a remarkable simplicity. A Gypsy in Auschwitz is the deeply moving, incredible story of how a young Sinti boy miraculously survived the unimaginable darkness of the Holocaust.
I give A Gypsy in Auschwitz five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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