Paul Glaser

Het levensverhaal van danslerares Roosje Glaser (1915-2000) die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog een aantal concentratiekampen en het vernietigingskamp Auschwitz overleefde, verteld door een van haar bloedverwanten.

het oorlogsgeheim van mijn familie

Tante Roosje / druk 4

het oorlogsgeheim van tante Roosje

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“An extraordinary story of an unconventional, nervy woman and her determination to survive.” —The New York Post Paul Glaser was an adult when he learned the truth about his heritage. Raised in a devout Roman Catholic home in the Netherlands, he had never known his father was Jewish and that their family had suffered great losses during the World War II. When Paul inquired, his father refused to provide details about the war, the camps, and especially Rosie, Paul’s estranged aunt. Shortly after this discovery, Paul started an investigation into his family’s past, desperate to get to the bottom of the long-standing rift between his father and Rosie. His research led him to a collection of Rosie’s wartime diaries, photographs, and letters, which told the dramatic story of a woman who was caught up in the tragic sweep of World War II. Rosie Glaser was a magnificent woman; despite everything, she remained hopeful, exuberant, and, most importantly, cunning. When the Nazis seized power, Rosie, a nonpracticing Jew, entered dangerous territory, managing a hidden dance school and participating in whispered conversations and secret rendezvous. She was eventually caught and sent to a series of concentration camps. She survived, though, in part by giving dance and etiquette lessons to her captors, who favored her and looked out for her in return. Of the twelve hundred people who arrived with her in Auschwitz, only eight survived. Dancing with the Enemy recalls an extraordinary life marked by love, betrayal, and fierce determination.

The Gripping Story of the Jewish Dance Instructor Who Survived Auschwitz by Teaching Dance to the Nazis

Dancing with the Enemy

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.

My Family's Holocaust Secret

Tijdens een bezoek aan Auschwitz ziet Paul Glaser in een vitrine een koffer uit Nederland staan, met daarop zijn achternaam geschreven. Het is het begin van een zoektocht naar een lang verborgen familiegeheim: de verzwegen lotgevallen van zijn tante Roosje. Roosje Glaser is een jonge Joodse vrouw uit Den Bosch die als danslerares werkt. Ze is zeer succesvol en danst in Amsterdam, Londen, Parijs en Berlijn. Wanneer de nationaalsocialisten aan de macht komen, begint voor Roosje een levensgevaarlijk avontuur. Haar eigen man blijkt een collaborateur en verraadt haar aan de nazi’s. Ze komt terecht in verschillende concentratiekampen, maar Roosje overleeft zelfs Auschwitz.

The gripping story of the author’s aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into the author’s own past and the key to discovering his Jewish roots. Raised in a devout Roman Catholic family in the Netherlands, Paul Glaser was shocked to learn as an adult of his father's Jewish heritage. Grappling with his newfound identity and stunned by his father’s secrecy, Paul set out to discover what happened to his family during World War II and what had caused the long-standing rift between his father and his estranged aunt, Rosie, who moved to Sweden after the war. Piecing together his aunt’s wartime diaries, photographs, and letters, Paul reconstructed the dramatic story of a woman who was caught up in the tragic sweep of World War II. 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 in an aviation accident, married the wrong man, and sought consolation in the arms of yet another. Then the Nazis seized power. For Rosie, a nonpracticing Jew, this marked the beginning of an extremely dangerous ordeal. After operating an illegal dance school in her parents’ attic, Rosie was betrayed by both her ex-husband and her lover, taken prisoner by the SS and sent to a series of concentration camps. But her enemies were unable to destroy her and, remarkably, she survived, in part by giving dance and etiquette lessons to her captors. Rosie was an entertainer at heart, and her vivacious spirit, her effervescent charm, and her incredible resourcefulness kept her alive amid horrendous tragedy. Of the twelve hundred people who arrived with her at Auschwitz, only eight survived. Illustrated with more than ninety photos, Dancing with the Enemy recalls an extraordinary life marked by love, betrayal, and fierce determination. It is being published in ten languages.

»Eines der außergewöhnlichsten Leben des 20. Jahrhunderts.« The Washington Times. Während eines Besuchs im Vernichtungslager Auschwitz entdeckt Paul Glaser einen Koffer – beschriftet mit seinem Familiennamen. Es beginnt die zaghafte Entdeckung der verdrängten jüdischen Wurzeln seiner Familie und der unglaublichen Überlebensgeschichte seiner Tante Rosie, einer temperamentvollen und emanzipierten Tanzlehrerin aus Amsterdam, die ihren Lebensmut gegen den nationalsozialistischen Terror verteidigt. Aus Rosies Tagebüchern und Briefen setzt Glaser ihre Biographie zusammen – ein authentischer und emotionaler Überlebensbericht, der zugleich vom Kampf zwischen Erinnern und Vergessen in einer Familie erzählt.

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