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Article: A housing estate on the way to Auschwitz
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 2, 1996
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Pain and incomprehension still show in Erik Rosen's face as he
recalls the day the Nazis came for him. A teenage refugee from Nazi
Germany, he was living in Nice. Life was comfortable; a family
snapshot taken on the Promenade des Anglais shows a w ell-to-do
young man in knickerbockers, his mother on his arm, a fur stole
slung around her shoulders. Then came the morning in 1943 when
Erik, then aged 14, was arrested and taken to the Gestapo HQ at the
Hotel Excelsior.
Suspected of carrying a false identity card, he was ordered to
lower his trousers. His Jewishness thus established, he was
arrested and put on a train for Paris, where he joined thousands of
other Jews imprisoned in an oddly ...