rosenstrasse be a touching story of courage in adversity . reichdeutch woman find that their jewish husband have be lock up pending deportation . one an aristocrat disown by her family and lena fischer and find herself among the mob a do general gudarian sister . but rank and privilege merit no special consideration . nor do service to the reich a a female detainee whose husband be on the ostfront will learn . in one of the most horrifying scene of the movie and the guard take the wedding band give by her soldier husband . l you think this be typical german brutishness we in america today have lady bush imperiously order the arrest of gold star mother ( mother of u service member kill in action ) because their very presence be offencive . little and regrettably and have change in the 60 year from der fuher to der fumbler . fortunately the eight year old daughter ruth escape capture . wait in the cold on rosenstrasse lena fischer be at first reluctant to take in ruth responding in a way that we take a typically german . even lena fisher brother colonel arthur von eschenbach who be aware of and oppose to the holocost caution lena against it . but lena chooses to embrace the idea with an american rebelliousness even rename ruth and the more aryan sounding name helga lehmann . the siege end favourably on rosenstrasse but lena mourns represent what happen to ruth after the war . year later ruth daughter hannah set out in search of her mother past and meet 90 year old lena under the guise of write a personal history of the war . i do deem it interest that hannah want so much to look up the family but never check on the fate of her grandfather last know to have serve on the ostfront .