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Her mother was British, her father was German. After WW1 they moved to Gaukonigshofen, in South Germany.

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By 1938, Rosa was 17 years old when she began studies to become a government clerk in Wurzburg. 25 miles from her home village. Her mother had an English citizenship.  Many jewish people asked her to teach them english in case they would get a chance to emigrate. Some were so desperate they asked her mother to write letters to try and receive a sponsor in another country. The nazis came after Kristallnacht. They are mad, they came at night, in trucks. They destroyed every Jews home. They destroyed expensive things. They took silver and small valuable things. Many jewish boys and men were taken and never seen again.

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The Nazis loaded up all of the rest of the Jewish women and children from the village. She hid at the train station and watched her friends and girls her age. That she grew up with, crying as they loaded the trains. The homes left by these people were then taken and lived in by Nazis.

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Many foreigners were assigned to work on farms. Worked for the farmers and ate their meals with them then returned to the camps at night. One incident in particular. One of the Polish workers got into an argument with a farmer and threatened him with a pitchfork. The man was sentenced to death and was hanged in the center of the town. The lawyer Rose worked for, went and witnessed it. She said when he returned his face was white and he was very sick to his stomach.

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Rose had started her job as a lawyers clerk. She had bought a radio for her mother. On the radio, they always listened to British News because her mother was English. It was illegal to listen to foreign stations. What they were broadcasting was completley different then what the Germans were.

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The Americans were not what we had expected, and I'm sure we were not what they had expected either.

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Since Rose spoke English she was the one that approached the soldiers. Rose was asked by an American lieutenant to work for him while he stayed in the village. Her job was to accompany soldiers around the village to help get anything they needed. Mainly furniture for the office the Americans set up in an old bank.

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By 1933, three years after Hitler took power. Jews were restricted from working which caused some to starve.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeKmbYvkTcg

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Holocaust Survivor Accounts: Rosa Marie Burger (German Jew) survives WW2 in Southern Germany

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https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/behind-every-name-a-story/rosa-marie-burge

https://prezi.com/p/ay9d_oc1zptw/holocaust-surviver-rosa-marie-burger/

https://nroberts.umwblogs.org/2018/05/30/survivor-interviewsrosa-marie-burger-and-ruth-kluger/

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On Easter Sunday of 1945, Americans entered the village after a huge battle between the Germans the day before. The German troops left and said they wouldn't be back. Quite a few village members took refuge in a farm cellar.

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Rumors of Americans leaving and being replaced with Russians scared the whole village. Everyone had heard about the Russians brutality to the Germans. One of the American soldiers promised Rose if they left, he would take her with them. In 1948, Rose married one of the American Soldiers and moved to the U.S with him. She later was a claims analyst for the Michigan Blue Cross.