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Autobiography/Memoir

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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.

Trauma warning: This archive contains material relating to care experience including references to abuse, neglect, sexual violence, and institutional harm.

 

Children and young people in social care, and those who have left, are often subject to stigmatisation and discrimination. Being stigmatised and discriminated against can impact negatively on mental health and wellbeing not only during the care experience but often for many years after too. The project aims to contribute towards changing community attitudes towards care experienced people as a group. See glossary HERE


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