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Otto Rosenberg (28 April 1927–4 July 2001), was a Holocaust survivor, author of A Gypsy in Auschwitz (1999), activist, and founder of Sinti Union of Berlin and Organization for German Sinti and Roma.
PERSONAL: Born April 28, 1927, in East Prussia; died July 4, 2001, in Berlin, Germany; married twice; children: (second marriage) seven. CAREER: Writer and activist. Founder, Sinti Union of Berlin and Organization for German Sinti and Roma.
Jul 11, 2001 · Otto Rosenberg, a German Gypsy who survived Nazi persecution and described it in a volume of memoirs, ''A Gypsy in Auschwitz,'' died last Thursday in Berlin, the German newspaper Berliner...
Apr 28, 2023 · Otto Rosenberg: Persecuted as Sinto. 80 years ago and just a few days before his fifteenth birthday, the Nazis deported Otto Rosenberg to the Auschwitz concentration camp. There the SS divested him of all his personal belongings and registered him, tattooing his inmate number Z 6084 on his forearm.
Everybody knew everybody.’. During the 1930s, the Roma and Sinti populations in Germany and across Europe faced appalling prejudice and discrimination. Otto was no exception, especially at school. In 1936 the Nazis ordered the forcible relocation of all Roma and Sinti in Greater Berlin.
Accused of sabotage, Otto Rosenberg was soon arrested and imprisoned for four months. In April of 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where he was among those who prepared an uprising against the SS in the “gypsy camp” on May 16, 1944.
Rosenberg managed to survive many more months of imprisonment in several different camps before he was liberated at Bergen-Belsen by British forces in spring 1945. The featured letter was written by Rosenberg in 1954. It provides a list of all the camps in which he had been imprisoned.
