Anna Rosmus
Author

Anna Rosmus, from Passau, Germany, is the real-life heroine of the film "The Nasty Girl", which chronicled the events of a teenager who uncovered her hometown's hidden Nazi past. For 17 years she has dedicated her life to uncovering anti-Semitism and the Nazi past of her hometown in Bavaria and to combating the neo-Nazis and extreme right in Germany. Anna Rosmus located and published the stories and the artwork of Jews who once lived in the Passau area and were exiled from their hometown. Her struggle led to threats against her life. She now lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area. Anna Rosmus was awarded the highest honor by the German Jewish Community, the Galinski Prize, in 1996. Her recent work is the subject of a documentary film which was shown throughout Germany, Passau-Washington: the Nasty Girl in America, and is available in English. She was profiled on "60 Minutes". Her books include: Wintergreen: Suppressed Murders; Pocking: End and Renewal; Exodus: In the Shadow of Mercy, Resistance and Persecution: Passau 1933-1939; and Robert Klein, a German Jew Looks Back. In 1994, Hans Dieter Schutt published a biography of Anna titled Anna Rosmus-The Witch of Passau. Winner of numerous awards for her efforts, she won the American Society of Journalists and Authors' Conscience in Media Award which was presented in a special program at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She has also been awarded the Sarnat Prize for those who fight anti-Jewish bigotry from the Anti-Defamation League, the Myrtle Wreath Award from Washington, D.C. Hadassah, the coveted Tucholsky Death Mask and the Holocaust Survivors and Friends' Holocaust Memorial Award. Her life story is a role model for all.