"Not without us about us". The guest speaker is Giano Wissen, chairman and founder of the Association of German Sinti Paderborn, a locally and internationally active representative of the Roma and Sinti.
Terms such as "brown-skinned", "nomadic people" or "unwelcome guests" are still among the moderate terms used to disparage Sinti, Roma and related groups in Westfalen newspapers between 1870 and 1933. The worst clichés were used. There is talk of "gangs of thieves", "child abductors", "fraudulent fortune tellers", "cunning horse traders" or a "plague on the land". Christoph Motog's part of the lecture takes up examples and gets to the bottom of the underlying stereotypical ideas. Motog is editor of the monthly magazine "Blicker", where he regularly covers local history topics.
The systematic persecution of Sinti and Roma during the Nazi era has still not been adequately addressed. Christian Frankenfeld would like to follow two traces in the Lippstadt area in his lecture: In April 1944, numerous Sinti from Minden were deported to the Störmede OT camp as so-called "persons unworthy of military service", where they were forced to perform hard physical labor under extreme conditions. There is also a reference in the prisoner register of the so-called "gypsy camp" Auschwitz. The name of Inge Rose, born in Lippstadt in 1935, is listed there. On the basis of existing research and new archive findings, the literary and cultural scholar will attempt to make the persecution and suffering of these people visible and reconstruct their history.
This year, the Lippstadt Synagogue Cultural Space is using the "Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism" on 27 January as an opportunity to focus on the discrimination, but also the history and culture of the so-called "Gypsies", the Roma and Sinti. The term "Porajmos" (German for "devouring") was coined to describe the genocide of their people, to which up to half a million people fell victim.
"Brownskins, thieves, child kidnappers" - "Gypsies" in local history and the present day
From the gypsy ball in Mastholte to the Störmede labor camp: Christoph Motog and Christian Frankenfeld report on their research into the history of the "gypsies" in the Lippstadt area.
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From the gypsy ball in Mastholte to the Störmede labor camp: Christoph Motog and Christian Frankenfeld report on their research into the history of the "gypsies" in the Lippstadt area.