Rosenstrasse

Rosenstrasse is an historical indie role-playing game by Jessica Hammer and Moyra Turkington that explores the erosion of Jewish civil liberties in Nazi Germany, culminating in the Rosenstrasse protest, an uprising in which nearly 1,500 non-Jewish wives of Jewish men saved their husbands from deportation. Each player is responsible for playing two pre-generated characters from a set of four married couples, in order to examine the historical scenario from different perspectives. Rosenstrasse was nominated for the 2023 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming and the 2022 ENNIE Award for Best Writing, was an official selection at IndieCade 2017, and was featured at XOXO (festival) in 2019. The game has also been the subject of academic scholarship.