Deportation of the Sinti and Roma from Marburg
The deportation of the Sinti and Roma from Marburg refers to the deportation of " gypsies " on March 23, 1943 to the " gypsy camp Auschwitz ".
prehistory
deportation
The district administrator of Marburg informed the mayors of Cölbe , Rauschenberg , Dreihausen and Oberweimar of the exact date of the deportation on March 17, 1943.
On the day of the deportation, March 23, 1943, the local police informed the Marburg residents' registration office that “the persons listed below would be arrested on March 23, 1943 on the orders of the Reichsführer SS and sent to the concentration camp in Auschwitz for an indefinite period”. 30 Sinti from Marburg and the surrounding area were brought together in front of the former district office in Barfüßerstrasse and deported to Auschwitz on Reichsbahn trains. Their property was confiscated for the German state.
A victim of the action later reported:
“We were then brought (on March 23, 1943, uer) by the gendarmerie to the Cölber train station. From there it went by train to Marburg, to the main station. From the main train station they took us to the former district office. To where the memorial plaque [Marburg, Barfüßerstraße] is now. They then brought together the Sinti who lived in a circle. […] Then police officers, left and right, with guns and dogs, we went through the city to the train station, and then we were crammed into a wagon. [...] We stopped in Kassel. So they invited other Sinti. Then it went through to Auschwitz-Birkenau. They told us we were going to be settled, we just had to make everything arable. We believed that too. We never believed that we were going to be bad. "
Only two of the deported Sinti survived.
Commemoration
In 1993 it was decided to erect a memorial plaque to commemorate the deported Sinti on the 50th anniversary of the deportation. This is located at the former assembly point of the Sinti, the former district office.
literature
- Udo Engbring-Romang; Adam Strauss (Ed.): Marburg. Auschwitz. To persecute the Sinti in Marburg and the surrounding area. Brandes & Apsel, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-86099-126-4 (= cornea on the soul , volume 5).
- Josef Behringer; Adam Strauss (Ed.): Flight - Internment - Deportation - Annihilation. Hessian Sinti and Roma report on their persecution during National Socialism. I-Verb.de, Seeheim 2005, ISBN 978-3-9808800-7-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Letter from the district administrator dated March 17, 1943
- ↑ Udo Engbring-Romang: Marburg. Auschwitz. P. 105
- ↑ Udo Engbring-Romang: Marburg. Auschwitz. Pp. 112-113
- ↑ Udo Engbring-Romang: Marburg. Auschwitz. P. 141
