Jakob Bamberger

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Jakob “Johnny” Bamberger (* 1913 ; † 1989 ) was a German Sinto , boxer , concentration camp prisoner and activist of the civil rights movement of the German Sinti and Roma .

Life

Jakob Bamberger was born in 1913 as the son of a horse dealer and owner of a traveling cinema in East Prussia . In 1935 the family was forced to shut down the cinema due to official repression. From 1935 to 1939 he worked for the Reichsbahn .

From 1933 he worked as a boxer. In 1934 he was appointed to the Olympic core team. In 1936 he belonged to the German Olympic squad before it was cleared of "non- Aryans ". On April 15, 1938 he was defeated in the championship fight against Nikolaus Obermauer and became German runner-up in the flyweight division . He remained runner-up in 1939 as well. In 1940 he was third in his class at the championships in Königsberg .

In 1940 his family was deported to the “Maideportation” . Bamberger tried to flee to Czechoslovakia , was arrested at the border and imprisoned in the Flossenbürg concentration camp . In 1943 he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp . There he was one of the subjects for the classified as a Nazi medical crimes seawater experiments of Wilhelm Beiglböck . Bamberger survived the attempts and was then deployed in a Dachau external command in armaments production. In 1945 he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp . In April 1945 he was liberated by US troops on a transport from Buchenwald to Flossenbürg. Jakob Bamberger lost his mother and two siblings in the camps.

His efforts to “make amends” started in 1946 were only successful in 1969. He was given a 25% impairment loss due to persecution, so he received the minimum pension. The kidney damage caused by the seawater experiments had been interpreted as a sports injury. In the court files of the medical trial that took place in Nuremberg from December 9, 1946 to August 20, 1947, there are numerous entries relating to statements by other witnesses about Bamberger.

Bamberger was involved in the civil rights movement. He joined the Association of German Sinti and took part in 1980 as one of twelve Sinti in the hunger strike at the Dachau concentration camp memorial.

literature

  • "I boxed them all". Interview with Jakob Bamberger. In: Jörg Boström, Uschi Dresing, Jürgen Escher, Axel Grünewald (eds.), The Book of the Sinti , West Berlin: Elefanten Press 1981, ISBN 3-88520-062-7 , pp. 156–158
  • "... and they wanted to forbid me to go on hunger strike". In: pogrom - magazine for threatened peoples , special edition for III. World Roma Congress, cited 1981, pp. 144-146

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duty to review in: taz of May 6, 2006, Michael Kuttner: Alle tiders stadium . In: /www.berlingske.dk of May 12, 2006
  2. ↑ Bamberg interview
  3. ↑ a b Michail Krausnick : The gypsies are here. Roma and Sinti between yesterday and today. Würzburg 1981, p. 156
  4. ↑ Krausnick: Where did you get to? The suppressed genocide of the Sinti and Roma. Bleicher Verlag, Gerlingen, 1995, pp. 80, 81
  5. ^ Nevipe - Rundbrief des Rom eV No. 42 (Jan. 2010) p. 4f .; Krausnick: Where did you get to? The suppressed genocide of the Sinti and Roma. Bleicher Verlag, Gerlingen, 1995, pp. 80, 81
  6. ↑ http: // suite101.de/article/holocaust-die-schicksale-vervielter-kzboxer-a65732
  7. ^ The Nuremberg Doctors Trial 1946/47. Index tape for the microfiche edition. Walter de Gruyter, 2000. p. 313
  8. ^ Ulrich Völklein: Hunger strike of the Sinti. What was right then ... demonstration not without success. In: Die Zeit of April 18, 1980
  9. ↑ Timeline: 1945 - present. Archived from the original on November 26, 2010 ; accessed on November 15, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Bamberger, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamberger, Johnny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer and later activist of the Sinti and Roma civil rights movement
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
DATE OF DEATH 1989