Hermann Höllenreiner

Hermann "Mano" Höllenreiner (born October 19, 1933 in Hagen ) is a German Sinto and survivor of the Porajmos . Höllenreiner is a delegate of the Central Council and of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma . He supports remembrance work in lectures, interviews and speeches.

In March 1943, at the age of nine, he and his family were deported from Munich to the Auschwitz gypsy camp . There he was tattooed on March 16 with the prisoner number Z - 3526 and registered in the ledger.

In 1944 he was a prisoner in the men's camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and from winter this year in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . At the end of the war he was able to escape from a death march . Completely exhausted, he was taken by French prisoners of war to France, where he was supposed to pretend to be a French Jew in order to hide his German origins. He was taken in by a family in Paris , but was briefly admitted to child psychiatry due to abnormalities due to his traumatization. It was only when the tattoo of his prisoner number on his arm was discovered that his family was found via tracing services, to whom he was able to return in December 1946.

He later married, but was only able to talk about his experiences late. The youth book Mano. The boy who didn't know where he was by Anja Tuckermann , published in 2008, is based on his life story.

On February 28, 2013, he received the Federal Cross of Merit.

On January 27, 2020, he was received by the German Federal President and attended the memorial service for the liberation of Auschwitz with him.

Web links

• Ronny Blaschke: Away from home in your own country. The minorities Sinti and Roma in European football. Deutschlandradio (manuscript)
• Project participants visited World War II memorials. The Nazi genocide of the Roma Longer passages in which Höllenreiner reports on the deportation and Auschwitz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.regensburger-nachrichten.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72491:bayerischer-staatspreis-fuer-unterricht-und-kultus- geht-nach-regensburg&catid= 73
2. ^ Http://www.gemeinde-mettenheim.de/pdf/mitteilungsblatt/mitteilungsblatt_2_2013.pdf
3. ^ Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in cooperation with the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg: Memorial book: The Sinti and Roma in the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. Saur-Verlag, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-11162-2 . P. 936f (print version) = P. 104 of the document.
4. ↑ The number has a different first name, which is not uncommon. Tuckermann gives the prisoner number in the blurb. [1]
5. ↑ Anja Tuckermann quotes Mano in her book . The boy who didn't know where he was , Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23099-6 numerous documents in which the first name Franz-Josef is always used. Figure No. 13 in this book also shows one of the letters written in the course of the search for Höllenreiner. The first name Franz-Josef is also used in this letter.
6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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9. ↑ http://www.innsalzach24.de/innsalzach/muehldorf/mettenheim/mettenheim-muenchen-erinnerung-triebe-hermann-hoellenreiner-innsalzach24-2774338.html
10. ↑ Philip Volkmann-Schluck: Concentration camp survivor was back in Auschwitz on Memorial Day: "I can't sleep because the Nazis are coming back" . In: image . January 28, 2020