#AGypsyInAuschwitz #booktour 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 A Gypsy in Auschwitz By Otto Rosenberg 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. 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 ✒️ Wow. The strength that radiates from these pages is something quite inspiring. The sheer terror that so many people were put through is incomprehensible. Otto's story is harrowing, its really hard to comprehend how a child; happy, cheeky, full of life could be met by such disregard and hate. There's something about the simplicity of how Otto's story is written that really makes you pause. Even just seeing 'died in Auschwitz 1944' written makes you realise this wasn't that long ago. Within my grandparents life time. I feel I had a little bit of ignorance before reading this, my mind would always go out to all the Jewish people who died in Auschwitz. Now I'm compelled to learn more about everyone who suffered, learn more about the Sinti and Roma communities that were taken to Berlin-Marzahn. Overall. Everyone should read the stories of the holocaust and Auschwitz, their stories are a fundamental part of history and should not be ignored. Otto, writes a story that is powerful, heartfelt and unimaginable. His bravery, and the bravery of those to stood with him is truly ore inspiring. 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 #agypsyinauschwitz #holocaust #storiesoftheholocaust #truestory #auschwitz #storyofbravery #compellingread #readersofinstgram #lovetoread #booksandblogs #blogging #storiesthatneedtobetold #history #read