The 45 Aid Society website had claimed that Rosie’s mother Ruth had brought young Holocaust survivors to England — which would have been pretty amazing seeing she wasn’t born until 1951.

But her family’s Holocaust story was tragic with a semi-happy ending.

Her grandmother, Elisabeth Hertzberger — whose first name she has as her middle name — and her great-grandmother, Rosetta, had some close calls as they hid from the Nazis in the Netherlands.

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