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Autobiography/Memoir
Rosa's Child: One Woman's Search for Her Past
Susi Bechhofer
1996
Rosa’s Child (1996) by Susi Bechhofer & Jeremy Josephs is the search by Susi Bechhofer for her family.
In 1939, Susi and her twin sister arrived in London on the Kindertransport. The 3-year-old girls were adopted by a Welsh minister and his wife and given new identities.
Fifty years later, Susi discovers they are the daughters of Rosa Bechhöfer, a young Jewish woman who was murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, and Otto Hald, a soldier in Hitler's army.
Susi Bechhofer’s story became a model for WG Sebald’s character Jacque Austerlitz in the novel entitled Austerlitz.
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