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Rosa, after earning enough money, bought her mom, Cathay Burger, a radio as a gift. This was the start to her and her mother’s acts of resistance. Her mother listened to the British news on the radio, which was a criminal offense and punishable by prison or death because the Nazis were strict about having civilians only hear the news through them and not by any other means. It was like censorship, the government only wanted the people to hear what they wanted them to hear.  But, despite this, Cathy would get up in the middle of the night to listen anyway, draping heavy cloth over her head and the windows to muffle the noise, and in the morning she would relay the information she learned to her Jewish neighbors and any others that she trusted.

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Rosa Marie Burger was born and raised in Gaukönigshofen, which was a small Bavarian village in southern Germany. Her life growing up was very traditional, with women and girls wearing intricate folk costumes and multiple family generations living in a house together. Many Jews also lived and worked in the village and were prosperous. In 1938, she studied at a trade school in Würzburg and, after she finished school, Rosa got a job doing clerical work in Ochsenfurt. She was a very successful woman in the sense that she had many jobs, but that was only because she was actually very poor. In the morning half of the day she worked for the school board and in the evening half she worked for a lawyer.

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Wider view of the village- Gaukönigshofen.

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One day, Rosa noticed that the lawyer she was working for was treating her differently, making her nervous and suspicious. The man handed her a letter, but never mentioned any names or information related to it. So, Rosa, after retrieving a file from her office, she went on the train home. It was there that she read the letter, which was sent from the Gestapo.

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The letter read that a Nazi from her village reported her mother for listening to British broadcasts and distributing that information to the Jews. Terrified, Rosa made it back to her village that evening, going to various locations that would be the most likely to know anything about the Gestapo. She went to the butcher, who was a figurehead in the town, and asked him if he knew about the report on her mother. And after a moment of prying, the man finally told Rosa about the police chief, telling her that the chief knew the whole story about the report on her mother.

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Rosa then went to the police station, questioning the chief about the incident. Luckily for her, the mass majority of the village were anti-Nazis, the chief and butcher included. So, the chief eventually caved in and told Rosa the truth, which was confidential, that her mother did indeed get reported to the Gestapo by the butcher’s nephew, who turned out to be a part of the Gestapo and basically a Nazi spy. But, the butcher had a talk with his nephew, promising the younger man all the meat he needed until the end of the war if he made the file “disappear”.  Fortunately enough, the file became “lost”, and Rosa and her mother were safe from the eyes of the Gestapo once more.

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Another honorable mention of resistance was Rosa’s mother, Cathy, teaching the Jewish people in the village English in case the opportunity of emigration rose. Some would ask her to write letters for them to send to potential sponsors because to leave Germany required money and a sponsor, which was difficult to acquire, but people were desperate for any chance. Rosa's mother helped in every way she could, giving the Jews as much resources and knowledge to leave and evade the Nazi rule, which was a despicable act in the eyes of the Nazis.

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Rosa and her mother directly went against the Nazi law, putting themselves and the rest of their family in danger. What they did made a bigger impact than what people may initially believe at first.

Despite being one of the smaller acts of protest, Rosa and her mother kept the village Jews informed and challenged their government's censorship and control. Rather than keeping their heads down, the two women worked diligently for the good of their hometown and its people, knowing that what they were doing could get them killed. Cathy illegally listened to enemy news broadcasts and Rosa helped her evade punishment, effectively resisting their circumstances.

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Life in Germany became more difficult. Resources were scarce, food was rationed, and everything escalated to a dangerous level. Bombings became more severe, foreign workers grew desperate and some even being executed/hanged for their aggression, and Jewish families were displaced and sent out of their home village.

American troops entered Rosa's village on Easter Sunday, 1945, forcing the German soldiers to retreat and pull out their forces. Rosa and her mother took refuge in a neighboring farmer's cellar, along with approximately 20 more people. When the Americans officially set up arms in the village, Rosa was elected to speak to them, as she understood and spoke English. Rosa recounts that the Americans were nice for the most part, the African American soldiers in particular, but she also noted that the men took what they wanted/needed and focused on the logistics of the operation.

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Rosa left Germany in 1948 after the war had ended. She married an American soldier that had been stationed in Germany and went with him back to the states when he was transferred. They settled in Battle Creek, Michigan, but they consistently moved and changed living arrangements as he was transferred around. Rosa states that adjusting to American life wasn't easy and that she often missed the village and her mother. But, she notes that America amazed her despite how different it was lifestyle-wise.

Rosa and her husband had children, their youngest daughter named Elizabeth Rose, who, in 2014, contacted the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in hopes to find more information about her family history. Through the museum's resource center, Elizabeth managed to connect with three more survivors from Gaukönigshofen, all of whom lived in the same village as her mother, Rosa, and knew her mother's family. Learning more about her family must have given Elizabeth relief and a sense of familiarity with that part of her that she didn't have before she was informed.

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Not long after the Americans arrived, Rosa was sought out by a lieutenant. The man knew her name, recognizing that she was one that could speak English, and he assigned Rosa a job to accompany a soldier named Freddie to find office furniture for their troop's headquarters. She worked for the lieutenant for a long while.

Despite their differences in formality and culture, when the villagers heard a rumor that the Americans were leaving and that the Russians would be stationed with them instead, they were terrified because they had also heard of the Red Army's brutality. Rosa recalls weeping to one of the American soldiers because she was so afraid. Even though the Americans were not what they expected, Rosa notes that they were good protectors and had some form of care for them.

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