Erika Rosenberg (born 24 June 1951 in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

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) is an author, interpreter and journalist. She wrote a biography of

Emilie Schindler Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl; ; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and muniti ...

Life

Rosenberg was born in a family of

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. Her parents, a lawyer and a doctor, fled in Germany in 1936 via

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and escaped the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

. In 1990 she met

first time. Their intensive conversations are documented in more than 70 hours of recordings from which Rosenberg made the biography "In Schindlers Schatten" in 1997. After Emilie Schindler's death on October 9, 2001, Erika Rosenberg was appointed one of her heirs, as their common work also led to a great friendship. Since 2009 Rosenberg has represented Argentina at the International Council of the

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. Erika Rosenberg was 2015 honored with the

Bundesverdienstkreuz The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

am Bande of the Federal Republic of Germany. She published a new book with the biography of

Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...

, and 2016 a biography of

Carl Lutz Carl Lutz (30 March 1895 – 12 February 1975) was a Swiss diplomat. He served as the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary, from 1942 until the end of World War II. He is credited with saving over 62,000 Jews during the Second World War in a ...

, who saved the life of more 60,000 Jews from deportation in Hungary. Erika Rosenberg was the key note speaker at the International Congress of Education in

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in 2017. She is now writing a new book about

violence against women Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), are violent acts primarily or exclusively committed against women or girls, usually by men or boys. Such violence is often consi ...

around the whole world.

Written works

* ''Where Light and Shadow Meet: A Memoir'', W. W. Norton & Company (1997). * ''In Schindlers Schatten. Emilie Schindler erzählt ihre Geschichte'', Kiepenheuer & Witsch (1997). * ''Ich, Oskar Schindler: Die persönlichen Aufzeichnungen, Briefe und Dokumente'', Herbig Verlag, Munich 2001 * ''Ich, Emilie Schindler. Erinnerungen einer Unbeugsamen'', Herbig Verlag, Munich (2001). * ''Oskar Schindler. Seine unbekannten Helfer und Gegner'' Lit-Verlag (2012). * " Als ich mit dem Papst U-Bahn fuhr", When I was with the Pope in the tube, Langen Müller Herbig, München 2015 * "Das Glashaus. Carl Lutz und die Rettung ungarischer Juden vor dem Holocaust", Langen Müller Herbig, München 2016

References

External links

"Meine Freundschaft zu Emilie Schindler"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenberg, Erika 20th-century Argentine Jews Argentine people of German-Jewish descent Argentine women writers Jewish Argentine writers 1951 births Living people Argentine women biographers Writers from Buenos Aires Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany