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Rosa Marie Burger was born and raised in Gaukönigshofen, a small Bavarian village in southern Germany. Life in German villages is very traditional.

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The women wore their long hair in the traditional style. Families lived together in large homes built of stone. All the different generations of the family shared the same house. They shared the household chores and the joys and troubles of everyday life.

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she remembers one incident in particular. One of the Polish workers got into an argument with a farmer and threatened him with a pitchfork. The farmer was not hurt, but he reported the occurrence to the authorities. The man was sentenced to death and was hanged in the center of town. The lawyer she worked for was required to witness the execution. When he returned to the office, his face was white; he was sick to his stomach.

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she remembers the Nazis coming in trucks to our village from other towns. They stormed the homes of the Jewish people in the night, using their axes to chop through the doors and break the windows. They took or destroyed all the lovely things in these homes: silver, featherbeds, beautiful quilts, even the food that had been so carefully preserved. Many Jewish men and boys were taken away in trucks. They were never seen again.

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There village had many Jewish citizens who worked as tradesmen or as farmers. Most were prosperous. During the 1930s, as Hitler came to power, things gradually became more difficult for Jews. By 1933, the Jewish people in our village began to fear the changes that were happening. Jews were restricted from working and received fewer ration stamps than other people. Soon they did not have enough food to eat. Things grew worse and worse.

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Rosa Marie Burger’s mother was an English citizen; her father was German.

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she left Germany in 1948. she had married an American soldier who was stationed in Germany, and when he was transferred back to the United States, she went with him. They settled first in Battle Creek, Michigan, and then moved as he was transferred to other posts.

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