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Information material
(Auto)Biographies:
Franz, L. (2004). Polizeilich zwangsentführt das Leben der Sintizza Lily van Angeren-Franz von ihr selbst erzählt. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg. [Original in Dutch]
Lessing, A. (1993). Mein Leben im Versteck: wie ein deutscher Sinti den Holocaust überlebte. Düsseldorf: Zebulon.
Malinowski, K. (2003). Das Schweigen wird gebrochen: Erinnerungen einer Sintezza an den Nationalsozialismus. Bayreuth: Bumerang.
Müller, J. M. (2002). Und weinen darf ich auch nicht...: Ausgrenzung, Sterilisation, Deportation - eine Kindheit in Deutschland. Berlin: Parabolis.
Ramati, A. (1991). Als die Geigen verstummten. Bergisch Gladbach: Lübbe. [Original in English] Repplinger, R. (2008). Leg dich, Zigeuner. Die Geschichte von Johann Trollmann und Tull Harder. München: Piper Verlag.
Rosenberg, O. (1998). Das Brennglas. Berlin: Eichborn. [There are translations into different languages]
Winter, W. S. (1999). Winterzeit: Erinnerungen eines deutschen Sinto, der Auschwitz überlebt hat. Hamburg: Ergebnisse. [There is a translation into English from 2004: Winter time: memoirs of a German Sinto who survived Auschwitz].
Winter. W. S. & Gruth, K. (ed.) (2009). Z 3105: der Sinto Walter Winter überlebt den Holocaust. Hamburg: VSA.
Novels:
Fischer, C. (1992). Die Wälder des Himmels. Düsseldorf: Econ.
Lakatos, M. (1979). Bitterer Rauch: Roman. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. [Original in Hungarian]
Tuckermann, A (2008): „Denk nicht, wir bleiben hier!“: Die Lebensgeschichte des Sinto Hugo Höllenreiner. Dtv Verlagsgesellschaft
Book for young people:
Krausnick, M. & Ruegenberg, L. (2007). Elses Geschichte: Ein Mädchen überlebt Auschwitz. Sauerländer: Oberentfelden. The book includes didactical materials related and some interviews with Else that can be found online
Theatre:
Elses Geschichte Elses Geschichte was played in Walldorf on the 29th of March 2009 and was directed by Jasmin Rahimi-Laridjani. The play is based in the book Elses Geschichte, by Michail Krausnick and Lukas Ruegenberg.
About the Roma Theater Pralipe: The Roma Theater Pralipe, which was based in Mühlheim an der Ruhr, played Z 2001. Die Tinte unter meiner Haut (2001) in different countries, for instance Germany (Frankfurt a. M., Heidelberg, Berlin…), Austria (Vienna), the Czech Republic or the Former Yugoslav Republic of acedonia. The DVD Z 2001. Die Tinte unter meiner Haut (2001), by Valentin Albersmann, shows some images of the play. Pralipe ceased to exist in 2004.
Music:
Ferenc Snétberger, born in Hungary, gave the concert "In Memory for my People" on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust (1995). The performances took place in different countries, such as Hungary, Italy, Germany and the USA - in the UN headquarters in New York, in the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2007. Ferenc Snétberger also composed the music for the play Z 2001. Tinte unter meiner Haut (2001), played by Roma Theatre Pralipe.
The German Rapper Sido talks openly about his Sinti heritage and makes it a subject of his songs.
Paintings:
The artist Katarzyna Pollock deals with the topic of the Roma Genocide.
Remembrance:
On January 27, 2004 there was a remembrance of the Roma Genocide in Heidelberg. In the event Senta Berger read texts on the subject, and Diego Köhler and Lothar Arnold played several pieces of music. The event was recorded in the CD: Rose, R. et al. (2004). "Alles, was hier geschah, war unfassbar". Heidelberg: Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Sinti und Roma.
Exhibitions:
The "Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma" (Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma) has organised several exhibitions in Germany and Europe on the Roma Genocide. The Centre offers the travelling exhibition - in English - "The Holocaust against the Roma and Sinti and present day racism in Europe". This exhibition has been hold in many countries and cities, such as Strasbourg (2006), Budapest (2006), Pécs (2006), Prague (2006) and Brno (2006). The Centre also published a DVD with information and photos of the exhibition: The Holocaust against the Roma and Sinti, and present day racism in Europe, 2006.