Thank you, NetGalley and Octopus Publishing US, Monoray, for the advanced copy of A Gypsy In Auschwitz in exchange for my honest review.

He discusses issues related to community, intergenerational trauma and memory with clarity and courage.Otto is a mere nine years of age when he and his family are ripped from the comfort of their community and forced to fight to survive in the Marzahn camp. The Sinti included name of his aunts, uncles and other relatives, including his grandmother's sister and her sons.

Transported to other camps, through luck and determination Otto manages to live, he manages to survive to tell his story. Mengele conducted scores of experiments on Roma and Sinti children and in just a few paragraphs it's chilling to note how he won their trust; Otto himself acknowledges that he only heard about his experiments after 1945 and at the time would never have believed he had such evil intent. He works, scrounges food whenever he can, witnesses and suffers horrific violence and is driven close to death by illness more than once.

Otto Rosenberg's family were Sinti and this candid account of his own ordeal at the hands of the Nazis is a harrowing read. The informal tone of this extraordinarily moving memoir means that although the subject matter is difficult, the words flow in a conversational style which is very readable. It remains vital that the stories of Holocaust survivors are told and heard, regardless of whether they are alive or not.

The police left and the military tookover the transport - when he turned 16 the train arrived in Auschwitz. I really enjoyed this memoir written about ww2 concentration camp atrocities by Otten Rosenberg, A Gypsy In Auschwitz, on racially forced labour camps in Nazi Germany. Otto Rosenberg passed away in 2001 but through his tireless campaigning for equality afterwards and his lifelong mission to bear witness to the crimes perpetrated against his people, his legacy will live on. Additionally, it is interesting to read his thoughts on why some people were able to endure more hardship than others.As his daughter says in the afterword, the true history and horror of what happened under the Nazis (and the Japanese on my side of the world), tends to be numbed when spoken about as a group. However, when he goes looking for reparations for his time in the concentration camps and the murder of so much of his family, he says "I had to go to the district court, only to be told that I wasn’t a real German and had no ties to Berlin.