His explanation of the way in which people became numbly apathetic to the sheer scale of horror that surrounded them is desperately poignant. This is the story of a young boy who managed to survive the most vicious and deadly of concentration camps. His survivor's guilt is palpable throughout and although he only shared his memories many years afterwards, it's obvious how they continued to haunt him right up until his own death.

This is an important addition to the stories told by Holocaust victims and survivors, particularly at a time when far-right populism is on the rise across Europe and anti-Roma prejudice is too often ignored or overlooked. A Gypsy in Auschwitz is a testimony of what the Sinti and Roma people experienced and how the world looked the other way, before, during and after the war. I loved that the book used photographs as part of the story too, it really did bring Otto’s history to life.I think what really rattled my cage about Otto's account was recognising the bureaucracy of the German nation, which is still a foundation of their structure today. The Olympics were about to start in Berlin, Hitler didn't want anyone to see the Roma, casting them aside, ripping them off all their belongings and even their homes, and building some tragic camps that will never hold any candle to their previous homes. There are times when he recounts the loss of his family members in just a few words because what else can be said; many were amongst the Sinti and Roma occupants gassed on August 2nd 1944 when the Romani camp at Auschwitz was finally liquidated.

What's equally important is the intergenerational trauma - epigenetic trauma is fascinating and tragic. A Gypsy in Auschwitz” by Otto Rosenberg is the survival story of a poor nine year old who first faces eviction to an enclosed encampment in Berlin and afterwards is sent to various labor camps for Jews and Gypsies, including the one in Auschwitz. The Sinti included name of his aunts, uncles and other relatives, including his grandmother's sister and her sons. The book is recommended by Doris Bergen as further reading in her book War and Genocide: a Concise History of the Holocaust. This book is a true account of life in numerous concentration camps during World War II, of survival against all odds and the awful treatment of Romani and Sinti people in war time Germany.Without giving too much away this was a book that had to be written, we need more books about Roma and Sinti, they deserve to be known and the stories to be heard. He also considers the difficulties of having so many people of different nationalities and languages crammed in together. In later years, Rosenberg was the chairman of the Regional Association of German Sinti and Romanies Berlin-Brandenburgand fathered seven children. their freedom, heir morale, their family members and their livelihood, their reason for making money and their reason for knowing what is wrong and right, their health, their ability to protect and be protected, their will, their bodies and even. If you are moved by stories about Auschwitz, seek to better understand history, want a real confession from someone who was actually there, this is the book for you.