By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail. With her son stranded by Covid at the other end of the world in Adelaide , my brother and I organised the funeral. We laid her to rest in a grave hewed out of chalk on a blustering, wet day at Brighton's Jewish cemetery, high up on the South Downs overlooking the city and in sight of the sea. In her final years, she would visit the schools of Brighton and Hove to provide testimony to the horrors she and other members of our family saw and suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
Like so many survivors, Rosie had a will of steel. At the end of the war, the rest of her family, including my father Michael, assumed she had died with her parents, my grandparents, in the gas chambers. But Rosie was rescued from Auschwitz by the Swedish Red Cross and, in , my father received a telegram saying they were caring for three young women by the name of Brummer who claimed relatives in the UK. If this was so, they could be sent to Brighton β where family members had settled β for the price of the tickets.
Alex Brummer writes that he is outraged at the cacophony of voices seeking to block the UK's Holocaust monument and its meaningful architecture Pictured:.
There is no message quite as powerful for young people than to hear of the abominations of the Shoah the 'destruction' in Hebrew first hand. I saw the anguish on the face of my own son Gabriel when, after the funeral my cousin, who was with Rosie in the camps, described in sordid and meticulous detail the gruesome journey from the family home in Hungary to Auschwitz and how they, three teenage girls barely older than puberty, were herded directly from the trains to the gas chambers.
They were ordered to strip naked and pushed into gas chamber 'showers'. They were saved from early death when the Zyklon-B capsules failed to activate. Instead, they were taken to a shed, given rough cotton garb which offered little protection against a mid-European winter and were subjected to near starvation and abuse.
