Turtledove
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Roxane Gimpel
Fictional Character
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
POD: c. 1940
Type of Appearance: Direct
Nationality: Germany (of secret Jewish ethnicity)
Date of Birth: 2003
Occupation: Student
Parents: Heinrich and Lise Gimpel
Relatives: Alicia and Francesca Gimpel (sisters),
Käthe Franks (aunt)

Roxane Gimpel (b. 2003) was the youngest daughter of Heinrich and Lise Gimpel. Unlike their eldest sister, Alicia, Roxane and her sister Francesca did not know they were Jews, and so cheerfully parroted the Greater Germanic Empire's teachings on the inferiority of the Jews. When Heinrich was accused of being a Jew in 2011, he and his daughters were taken into custody. Both Francesca and Roxane fought tooth and nail with their captors, but were held in a detention center until the charge was dropped, and the Gimpels were allowed to go home.

Roxane would learn the truth about herself when she turned ten, some three years after Alicia learned it.

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