Rosa Rosenstein on leaving Berlin
Rosa Rosentstein on leaving Berlin
As we walk along Gipsstrasse we’re going to turn right on Rosenthalerstrasse, so while we walk, let’s have Rosa Rosenstein tell us about fleeing from Germany and what happened to her and her family. “In 1938 my father was arrested. He had a Polish passport and they threw him out of Germany.Somehow he managed to come back. We were all desperate to get out, and my father found visas for him and my mom to go to Palestine. But Michi and I decided to go to Budapest. “Nothing can happen to us there,” Michi said. And for a while, we were all safe. You could work, go to school, go to synagogue.But then came 1941. The Hungarians took my Michi to forced labor when the Hungarian army invaded the Soviet Union, and that’s where he perished.My parents sent me telegrams and letters—send us the girls, just send them!” Thank God the Hungarian Jewish community arranged that for me and then I went into hiding. It wasn’t easy but in January, 1945 the Soviets entered Budapest and put an end to the hell I had lived through since 1938.”
As seen on
Centropa Jewish Berlin Tour