DVD | Rosenstrasse

Agonisingly slow at times, Rosenstrasse is a compelling, emotional true story and love and human courage.

In the cold winter of 1943, hundreds of women stood in defiance of the Nazis, outside a factory on Rosenstrasse Street. They would not be moved, they would not back down, they were prepared to die.

You see, these outstanding Aryan women were all married to Jews, and because of this, the Nazi’s weren’t sure what to do with them, so instead of sending them direct to the camps, there were taken to this factory on Rosenstrasse, and kept prisoner, without being able to say goodbye to their wives.

The Story is told through flash backs as a young Jewish New Yorker decides to trace her family history, and discovers a miracle.

This is an amazing story, not only because it shows the plight of the Jews, but also because it shows that not all Germans were evil.

We’ve been pre-conditioned by Hollywood and history to think that all of Germany in the 1940s was corrupt, but Rosenstrasse demonstrates that there were still good people in Germany, despite Hitler’s best efforts.

Spiritual Connections
Religion plays a huge part in this movie – on one level it’s about a Jewish girl discovering the importance of her faith, on another is about true love, the kind that you’d die for. It’s about standing up for the oppressed, the weak and the homeless.