A Gypsy In Auschwitz, Otto Rosenberg
A Gypsy In Auschwitz, Otto Rosenberg
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A Gypsy In Auschwitz
How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’

Author: Otto Rosenberg

Narrator: Richard Trinder

Unabridged: 4 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Monoray

Published: 08/04/2022

Synopsis

Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first 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'.

Otto 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. Unbelievably, 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, he survives.

The stories of Sinti and Roma suffering in Nazi Germany are all too often lost or untold. In this haunting account, Otto shares his story with a remarkable simplicity. Deeply moving, A Gypsy in Auschwitz is the incredible story of how a young Sinti boy miraculously survived the unimaginable darkness of the Holocaust.

About Otto Rosenberg

Otto Rosenberg was born in East Prussia in 1927 and grew up in Berlin. He was 9 when he was sent to the Roma and Sinti camp in Marzahn, ahead of the 1936 Olympic Games, and 16 when he was sent to Auschwitz. He was then detained in Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps before being freed in 1945. In later years, Rosenberg was the chairman of the Regional Association of German Sinti and Romanies Berlin-Brandenburg and fathered seven children. He passed away in 2001.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marilyn (not getting notifications) on January 09, 2023

A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the “Forgotten Holocaust” by Otto Rosenberg was a very poignant and heartfelt memoir. Otto grew up in a large Sinti family in Berlin, Germany. He was one of eleven children. Otto was a happy, inquisitive and adventurous child growing up. Everyone s......more

Goodreads review by Karen on August 25, 2022

It is thought that around 500,000 Roma and Sinti people – at least a quarter of their population at the time – were murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe. Although in recent years, there has been some recognition of this genocide, the Porajmos (the 'Devouring' in Romani) is still not widely known about.......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on July 12, 2023

This book was an absolutely brutal emotional roller coaster. I knew it would be gut wrenching even before starting it, but I still wasn't prepared for it in the slightest. I felt sick to my stomach the whole way through, the thought of someone going through something so horrific is just heartbreakin......more

Goodreads review by Craig and Phil on July 23, 2022

Thank you Hachette for sending us a copy to read and review. The Holocaust conjures up an image of six million Jews murdered. It rarely accounts for the deaths of the many Roma, Sinti, homosexual or other non desirable minorities. Many works of fiction articulate and capture the horror of Jewish char......more

Goodreads review by Isaiah on October 11, 2022

I got an ARC of this book. I read pretty much every memoir I can about the Holocaust. It is that time period that I just can't look away from and need to know every single story about. This is the very Romani story I have seen get published. Seeing non-Jewish stories are rare. So I got really excite......more

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