Erika Rosenberg is an author, interpreter and journalist. She wrote the biography of Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving over 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.He is the subject of the...

 and Emilie Schindler

Emilie Schindler

Emilie Schindler was a humanitarian who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 to 1,700 Jews during World War II...

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Life

Erika Rosenberg was born in a family of German Jews in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

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

Paraguay

Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...

 to Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 and escaped the Holocaust.

In 1990 she met Emilie Schindler

Emilie Schindler

Emilie Schindler was a humanitarian who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 to 1,700 Jews during World War II...

 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 Erika Rosenberg represents Argentina at the International Council of the Austrian Service Abroad

Austrian Service Abroad

Austrian Service Abroad is a non-profit initiative and was founded in 1998 by Andreas Maislinger and Andreas Hörtnagl. Since 2001 Michael Prochazka is part of the managing committee.-General Information:...

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Written Works

• Where Light and Shadow Meet: A Memoir W. W. Norton & Company (August 1, 1997), ISBN 978-0393336177
• In Schindlers Schatten. Emilie Schindler erzählt ihre Geschichte Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1997, ISBN 3462025856
• Ich, Oskar Schindler: Die persönlichen Aufzeichnungen, Briefe und Dokumente Herbig Verlag, Munich 2001 ISBN 3776622040
• Ich, Emilie Schindler. Erinnerungen einer Unbeugsamen Herbig Verlag, Munich 2001 ISBN 377662230X

External links

• http://www.dhm.de/lemo/forum/kollektives_gedaechtnis/379/index.html
• http://www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/index.cfm?id=10716