Descriptions Else`s Story: The story of how a little girl survived Auschwitz Free Ebook
Else grows up in Hamburg unaware that she is a foster child and that the Nazis have labelled her a ‘half-caste Gypsy’. Only later does she find out that her natural mother is a so-called ‘half Gypsy’. In the spring of 1944 - Else has just turned eight - two policemen collect her at home and take her to a warehouse in the harbour. Here Sinti and Roma (Romani) are interned before being transported to Auschwitz … Based on the account of contemporary witness Else Schmidt Michail Krausnick tells the story of the months of horror that the girl lived through in Auschwitz and Ravensbruck, her observations, her feelings, and how she coped with everyday life. It also tells of two individuals whose courage and humanity helped save Else’s life.
Else Baker was the sole Romani victim of the Holocaust to be presented to the Queen on Holocaust Memorial Day, on 27 January 2005, in the historic Westminster Hall, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
On 15 June 2012 Else Baker was awarded the Officer´s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of her outstanding service to remembrance and education.
With an epilogue by Romani Rose, chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma.
“To conceal the horrors of the past is to imperil the future.”
Erich Kästner, Second Grade Reading Books .
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