10 March 1943 | A German Sinti boy, Josef Böhmer, was born in Berlin. In the #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) from 24 March 1943. No. Z-5035 He perished in the camp on 6 April 1943. He was 27 days old. - ThreadSky

auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social • 3 days ago

10 March 1943 | A German Sinti boy, Josef Böhmer, was born in Berlin.

In the #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) from 24 March 1943.
No. Z-5035
He perished in the camp on 6 April 1943. He was 27 days old.

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squareandplumb.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wow.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•3 days ago

"Racial Diagnosis: gypsy"
The Genocide to the Sinti and Roma and the long struggle for recognition
1/n
The photos in which groups of adolescents can be seen on excursions in nature or in the garden seem like a childish idyll. But the idyll is deceptive, because the

rudigeerts.bsky.social•3 days ago

2/n photos show children from Sinti families who were housed in St. Josefspflege in Mulfingen during the Nazi era and were later murdered in Auschwitz. The deportation to the Catholic children's home was ordered because the parents were in a concentration camp or the children

rudigeerts.bsky.social•3 days ago

3/n were under state care for other reasons. In Mulfingen, the Sinti pupils were examined by Eva Justin, a close associate of the head of the Racial Hygienic and Population Biological Research Center in the Reich Health Office, for her racial dissertation. Most of them were

rudigeerts.bsky.social•3 days ago

4/4 therefore initially spared from deportation to a concentration camp.
Only after the research was completed were the remaining children (20 boys and 19 girls) taken to Auschwitz on May 9, where all but four were killed. There was no resistance on the part of the home staff.