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Rosa Winter (born December 23, 1923 in Königswiesen , Freistadt district , † May 16, 2005 in Linz ) was an Austrian concentration camp survivor.

Life

Born in the winter of 1923 in the Mühlviertel as a member of the Sinti family Kerndlbacher. During the time of National Socialism , Winter's family was brought to the “gypsy camp ” in the Kendler settlement in Salzburg- Maxglan , and they themselves were later deported to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp . Rosa Winter was the only survivor of her family, all relatives were murdered.

Kerndlbacher took over in 1941 a minor role in the film lowlands of Leni Riefenstahl .

Rosa Winter became known in 2003 for the film Vom Leben und Überleben , a documentary about six survivors of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp, and the book Uns hat sein nicht gab . In 2004 she received the Gold Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria .

See also

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 203 (Rosa Kerndlbacher).
  • Ludwig Laher : It shouldn't have been us. Rosa Winter, Gitta and Nicole Martl - Three generations of Sinti women tell stories . Edition Geschichte der Heimat, Grünbach 2004, ISBN 3-902427-10-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On life and survival ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ravensbrück video archive, accessed on December 6, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.videoarchiv.ravensbrueck.at
personal data
SURNAME Winter, pink
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerndlbacher, Rosa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian concentration camp survivors
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Königswiesen , Freistadt district
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2005
Place of death Linz