Rosa Marie Burger by Peyton Dailey

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Rosa Marie Burger was born in 1921 in Gaukonigshofen a small Bavarian village

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In 1938 at the age of 17 she begain studies at a trade school in Wurzburg

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During Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” Rosa recounted how Nazis from other towns attacked Jewish homes in her village, destroying property and abducting men and boys who were never seen again.

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Rosa witnessed the deportation of the remaining Jewish women and children from her village. Hiding near the train station, she saw her friends, girls she had grown up with, crying as they were herded onto the train.

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After World War II, Rosa married an American soldier stationed in Germany. Upon his reassignment to the United States, she moved with him, starting a new life in America.

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Rosa noted that during Kristallnacht, Nazi perpetrators from other towns carried out the attacks in her village. This strategy was employed to prevent local Nazis from hesitating due to personal relationships with their Jewish neighbors.

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Rosa’s father was living in England when he met her mother, an English citizen. They married and initially settled in England before moving to Germany shortly after World War I.

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Rosa’s mother, being an English citizen, taught English to Jewish villagers hoping to emigrate to English-speaking countries to escape Nazi persecution.

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“I will never forget their faces, the ones who were taken away.”

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https://youtu.be/9Ph0nKkD8Ys?si=jZbjARILAO0aJ7QV

peytondailey — 2025-03-12 04:34:36 UTC

peytondailey — 2025-03-12 04:34:51 UTC

My sad one source also there are only 3 pictures of her so I couldn't do 4 sorry

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“Rosa Marie Burger.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/behind-every-name-a-story/rosa-marie-burger. Accessed 4 March 2025.

peytondailey — 2025-03-12 12:10:11 UTC