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Dancing with the Enemy: My Family's Holocaust Secret
By Paul Glaser
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When Paul Glaser discovered his Aunt Rosie’s remarkable wartime diaries, photographs and letters he was shocked: he had been raised as a Catholic, and had no knowledge of his Jewish heritage. But the story he was to uncover and reconstruct was one far larger and more dramatic than he could have ever imagined.
Rosie Glaser was a magnetic force – hopeful, exuberant and cunning. An emancipated woman who defied convention, she toured Western Europe teaching ballroom dancing to high acclaim, falling in love hard and often. By the age of twenty-five, she had lost the great love of her life, married the wrong man, and sought consolation in the arms of another. Then the Nazis seized power. After operating an illegal dance school in her parents’ attic, she was betrayed by both her ex-husband and her lover, taken prisoner by the SS and sent to a series of concentration camps. Of the twelve-hundred people who arrived with her at Auschwitz, only eight survived.
Rosie Glaser was a magnetic force – hopeful, exuberant and cunning. An emancipated woman who defied convention, she toured Western Europe teaching ballroom dancing to high acclaim, falling in love hard and often. By the age of twenty-five, she had lost the great love of her life, married the wrong man, and sought consolation in the arms of another. Then the Nazis seized power. After operating an illegal dance school in her parents’ attic, she was betrayed by both her ex-husband and her lover, taken prisoner by the SS and sent to a series of concentration camps. Of the twelve-hundred people who arrived with her at Auschwitz, only eight survived.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The author of this biography was raised in the Catholic faith. He learned of his Jewish background as an adult, and of his aunt Rosie, who survived the Holocaust. Glaser did not have a relationship with his aunt because of a rift between his father and his aunt. However, he had access to her diaries and letters, and they form the basis for this biography.Rosie was an unconventional woman. She was attractive and had a strong personality. She ignored the Jewish curfew and refused to wear a yellow star on her clothes, and she got away with this for quite some time. When she eventually ended up in work camps and concentration camps, she was able to negotiate with camp officials and with other prisoners to get what she needed, whether that was extra food, warmer clothing, and better living conditions. She didn't seem to have scruples about sleeping with officers if that's what it took to get what she most needed. Rosie survived.I've read about the Dutch resistance and Dutch citizens like Corrie ten Boom and Miep Gies who hid Jews during the Holocaust. This book tells a different story of Dutch who betrayed Jews and the Dutch government's cooperation with the Germans.For me, the saddest part of Rosie's story is the rift that grew between Rosie and her brother (the author's father). They both survived, but it seemed that neither could forgive the other for the way they survived.