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Alice Lang Rosen - August 5, 1991

Alice Lang Rosen was born in 1934 in Lambsheim, Germany. Alice and her parents later moved to Mannheim, Germany to open a textile store. During Krystallnacht, Alice's father was taken to Dachau for a short time before being returned home. In 1940, the Gestapo raided their home and took the family on trucks to Gurs, a concentration camp in France. After a year in Gurs, the family was taken to Rivesaltes. At Rivesaltes, Alice's father put her in the care of the a children's aid society to save her. She was eventually sent to stay in a convent in the South of France, before being put into two foster homes with French families. At the end of the war, Alice stayed in a Jewish children's home outside of Paris before her father found her again. She reunited with him in Heidelberg where he remarried. Alice and her new family moved to the United States in 1949.

1. Introduction
2. Family
3. Life Before the War
4. Life Before the War II
5. Being Taken by the Gestapo
6. Life in Gurs
7. Being Taken by the Gestapo II
8. Being Transferred to Rivesaltes
9. Life in Rivesaltes
10. Being Put into Hiding in France
11. Being Put into Foster Care
12. Life in Foster Care
13. Being Hunted by Nazis
14. Being Taken to a Jewish Children's Home
15. Learning to be Jewish Again
16. Life in the Jewish Children's Home
17. Learning Father is Alive
18. Being Reunited with Father
19. Life in Heidelberg
20. Meeting Stepmother
21. Fate of Mother
22. Father Falls Ill
23. Sharing Story with Surviving Family
24. Life with New Family
25. Relations with German Gentiles After War
26. Moving to the United States
27. Life in New York
28. Moving to Chicago
29. Moving to Detroit Husband: Tell how you came to Detroit.
30. Relationship with Parents
31. Life in Detroit
32. Meeting Husband
33. Becoming a Citizen
34. Getting Married
35. Sharing Story
36. Sharing Stories of Catholic Childhood in France
37. Conclusion