To Tell At Last: Survival under False Identity 1941-45

About this book

Blanca Rosenberg was a young wife and mother who escaped the brutality of the ghetto in Kolomyja Poland after her entire immediate family was killed. Though equipped with Aryan false-identity papers she found life marked by daily threats and the danger of discovery - by the Gestapo Polish police extortionists collaborators hoodlums and even former colleagues and acquaintances. Rosenbergs wartime trek took her to Polish cities German military hospitals and finally to Heidelberg Germany where she worked as a maid in a Nazi household from 1944 until her liberation by American forces. Her story is also a testimony to the power of friendship. Brought together in the ghetto she and her friend Maria continued to support each other in their ensuing struggle for survival.