To her grandchildren, Rosi Schul was a kind, proud, talented and sometimes forbidding German woman with immaculate hair who once, long ago, went on a ‘great adventure’. What she wasn’t was a kind, proud, talented and sometimes forbidding German woman with immaculate hair who was once arrested, imprisoned, herded into a cattle cart and interned by the Nazis, all because she was a Jew. Rosi as a young womanRosi was brought up in a loving household filled with music and culture. Recurrent is the difference in the way Jess’s mum, Jackie, and Stephie experienced their mother Rosi. Movingly written, this final instalment coincides with Jess remembering Rosi at an event at The Wiener Holocaust Library in London.

Source: Daily Mail February 01, 2026 12:47 UTC