Vinzenz Rose (1908–1996), survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp and of medical crimes in the Natzweiler concentration camp. When Vinzenz Rose was deported to Auschwitz in 1943, he had already successfully evaded capture by the Gestapo for several years. His father and two-year-old child died in Auschwitz, his mother later in Ravensbrück.
He was transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Natzweiler together with other Sinti and Roma. There he was abused for typhus fever experiments. In April 1944, he was transferred to Neckarelz, a subcamp of Natzweiler. His brother Oskar Rose (1906–1968), who had escaped deportation and was hiding in nearby Heidelberg under a false name, organised Vinzenz Rose’s escape from outside under very risky circumstances, which was successful on 30 August 1944.
Vinzenz and Oskar Rose were pioneers of the civil rights movement of the German Sinti and Roma after 1945.
