To her grandchildren, Rosi Schul was a kind, proud, talented and sometimes forbidding German woman with immaculate hair who once, long ago, went on a ‘great adventure’. What she wasn’t was a kind, proud, talented and sometimes forbidding German woman with immaculate hair who was once arrested, imprisoned, herded into a cattle cart and interned by the Nazis, all because she was a Jew. This deeply moving book by her granddaughter, actress and impressionist Jess Robinson, tells Rosi’s story through her diary entries between October 1938 and March 1943, beginning when she was 23. Rosi was brought up in a...