Sinti memorial

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Sinti memorial

The Sinti Memorial (also memorial ensemble for Sinti and Roma , or memorial for Sinti and Roma) is a monument and memorial garden on the park cemetery Marzahn in Berlin district of Marzahn of Marzahn-Hellersdorf .

description

The Sinti memorial is located in the rear right part of the Parkfriedhof Marzahn and since it was set up in September 1986 by the city ​​council, a boulder , a light marble plaque in front of it and a copper plaque placed in front of it on the left of the suffering of the Berlin gypsies from May 1936 to Liberation of the people by the Soviet army . The idea for this memorial came from the writer Reimar Gilsenbach and Pastor Bruno Schottstädt from the Marzahn-Nord parish . The inscription was also corrected in the summer of 1997. The marble plaque in front of the boulder was unveiled on June 16, 1990. A blackboard was created together with Cinti Union and Reimar Gilsenbach. A year later, the metal panel designed by Götz Dorl was placed next to it.

The following inscription is on the boulder: FROM MAY 1936 / TO / LIBERATION / IMSERES PEOPLE / BY THE / GLORIOUS / SOVIET ARMY / LITTEN IN A / FORCED CAMP / NEAR THIS PLACE / HUNDRED MEMBERS / THE SINTI / HONOR .

The marble plaque is 0.10 × 0.60 × 0.45 meters and there is the following inscription: The Berlin Sinti who suffered in the / Gypsy camp Marzahn / and died in Auschwitz / May 1936 - May 1945 / ATSCHEN DEVLEHA .

The copper writing board is 0.80 × 0.70 meters and there is the following inscription: On a former sewage field north / of this cemetery the Nazis / in the run-up to the 1936 Olympic Games / set up a »Gypsy resting place« where / hundreds of Sinti and Roma / were forced to live. Crammed together in gloomy barracks, / the camp residents eke out a miserable / existence. Hard work, sickness and hunger / claimed their victims. People were arbitrarily abducted and arrested. / Humiliating "race hygiene examinations" / spread fear and horror. / In the spring of 1943 most of the / "detained" were deported to Auschwitz. / Men and women, old people and children. / Few survived .

literature

  • Sylva Brösicke-Istok, Hans Schlegel: Sculptures, monuments and fountains in the Marzahn district . Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein eV, Berlin 1993, p. 40 .
  • Christa Hübner, Manfred Teresiak: Memorial and remembrance sites in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district . Heimatverein Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Berlin 2007, p. 83-84 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List, map, database / Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment - Berlin. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Memorial plaques in Berlin: Memorial plaques in Berlin - Memorial plaque advertisement. Retrieved January 3, 2018 (German).

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '56 "  N , 13 ° 32' 37.2"  E