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Born into a Romani family marked by war and poverty, Daniel grows up in a world that leaves little room for him. As a child, he knows hunger, cold, suspicious looks and closed doors. At school, he is rejected. In the street, he is despised. Being Romani means carrying a wound no one sees, but that is felt at every moment.
Yet, as the years and trials pass, hands reach out. A colonel who teaches him to read. A director who trusts him. A friend who becomes his brother at heart. Simple, generous souls who change the course of a life.
This book is the testimony of a man who crossed everything - persecution, abandonment, poverty, grief - without ever losing his dignity or his pride. A man who travelled to Auschwitz-Birkenau to see with his own eyes the names of his ancestors carved in stone. He came back broken - but standing.
I Wasn't Alone is a book about memory, resistance, and the silent strength of a free people that history has too often tried to erase.
"I am Romani. And I am proud of it."
MEHRSTEIN Daniel - 2026
