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#Book Review #A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’ #Otto Rosenberg #Publisher: Monoray/Octopus books #Non Fiction Holocaust Biography

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW I really enjoyed this memoir written by Otten Rosenberg about the WW2 events, A Gypsy In Auschwitz,  on racially forced labour camps in Nazi Germany.  Otto Rosenberg was from a German Sinti family, born in Draugupone, East Prussia, in 1927. He was sent to live with his grandmother because his parents separated  around that time. Otto Rosenberg belonged to one big family in those concentration camps. Later after the concentration camp he was back with his grandmother after living with his dad at the age of five in berlin. He was always hungry as a boy, if he wanted to eat something he needed to work long and hard for it. He was closer to his grandmother than to his own parents. Thier final move to sandbcaher weg in Altglienicke - Bonsdorf district. He also started school here. He experienced his share of discrimination and fought back against the children who tried to put him down.  One morning they were loaded into trucks by th...