[Year of first publication] 2003 [Character(s)] Ruth Weinstein, Hannah Weinstein [Work] Rosenstrasse [Creator] Margarethe von Trotta (dir) von Trotta and Pamela Katz (screenplay) [Country of publication] Germany [Details] After her husband's death, Ruth Weinstein, who is living in New York at the turn of the 21st century, becomes traumatized by memories from her youth and "inexplicably" begins following Orthodox Jewish customs. This triggers her adult daughter, Hannah, to travel back to Germany where she discovers that her grandmother (Ruth's mother) had been arrested by the Nazis and held in a prison on Rossenstrasse. As a little girl on the street outside the prison, Ruth had been found and eventually cared for by a Gentile woman who was successfully protesting there for the release of her Jewish husband.[129] [Media] 
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