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Evelyn Wilcox reviews their personal connection to the Rosentrassee Protest in ties with the Rosentrassee film.

First I would like to say I'm pleased that "Rosenstrasse" has been made.

Even though the film is peppered with assumptions and errors, the subject of

juedischen Mischehen is not a subject that has been turned into many films.

I recall one other film produced in the 1946 in the eastern sector "Ehen Im

Schatten" about a mixed marriage.

 

I must agree with Ms. Wilcock that mixed marriages in the Third Reich was

one of the greatest risks imaginable. Today a mixed marriage in Israel is

also a taboo.

 

My parents - father Jewish - mother Catholic - married in 1932. As Hitler

came into power, the Jewish question was not on the front burner. By 1935

with the passing of the Nuremberg Laws, the Jewish question began to

dominate "Das Dritte Reich". My mother was approached numerous times by

Berlin's secret police suggesting that she should divorce her "dirty Jewish

husband" and her life would be much better. By 1938 my parents left Berlin

for Brussels where I was born in 1939.

 

After the war, my father was advised by the Jewish community in Brussels

that he and family should settle in Palestine. My father being aware of

their attitude on mixed marriages, my father would not go through this

"hell" for a second time.

 

One of the leading messages in "Rosenstrasse" does focus on love, loyalty

and dedication regarding Mischehen.

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