Three siblings choose to remain in Germany
Despite her impassioned pleas, Rosa's brother Gustav, an asthmatic, her sisters Minna, a diabetic, and Hedwig, as well as Franziska (Fränze), and Fränze's Lutheran husband, Alfred, all felt too old, too weak to make the leap across the yawning chasm of the English Channel.
Rosa would have to go without them; they all knew perfectly well what their fate would be if they did not escape. And so Rosa too had finally to turn her back on her beloved family, on all that had been, on Germany.
Not one of those left behind would survive. the war. Rosa's decision unquestionably saved her own life.
