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Hugo Höllenreiner

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Hugo Höllenreiner (2009)

Hugo Adolf Höllenreiner (15 September 1933 – 10 June 2015) was a Sinti survivor of the Porajmos during the Nazi dictatorship.[1][2]

Life

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Höllenreiner was born on 15 September 1933 in Munich, Germany. His parents chose his middle name in order to protect him from the growing threat of the Nazis. Still he was deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz on 16 March 1943,[3] where Josef Mengele tortured him and his brother with cruel pseudomedical experiments. After being taken to the other concentration camps Ravensbrück and Mauthausen, he finally ended up in Bergen-Belsen. He, his five siblings, and both parents survived the Porajmos.

Since the late 1990s, Höllenreiner has given numerous lectures about his experiences. Höllenreiner lived in Ingolstadt.

Awards and honors

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Hugo Höllenreiner has received numerous awards and honors for his commitment as a contemporary witness of the National Socialist tyranny:

Portrayal in literature, film and music

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In numerous interviews with the author Anja Tuckermann, Höllenreiner has talked about his fate during the Nazi era. Tuckermann received the German Youth literature prize for her book "Denk nicht, wir bleiben hier!" The book also received numerous nominations for other literature prizes. In 2007 Angelus Mortis shot a documentary about Höllenreiner's fate. Adrian Coriolan Caspar did some interviews with Höllenreiner in 2008, which he implemented musically with his first orchestral work Symphonia Romani - Bari Duk, an oratorium for solo bass, mixed choir and orchestra.

References

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  1. ^ "Hugo Höllenreiner ist tot" (in German). Süddeutsche Zeitung. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Zur Person Hugo Höllenreiner" (PDF) (in German). Website of the town of Nienburg. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  3. ^ Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum with the Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma Heidelberg: Gedenkbuch: Die Sinti und Roma im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz Birkenau. Saur, München/London/New York/Paris 1993, ISBN 3-598-11162-2. (Trilingual: Polish, English, German) S. 104
  4. ^ "Alliance Taskforce participates in presentation ceremony of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award for Pharrajimos survivor Hugo Höllenreiner". roma-alliance.org. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  5. ^ "70 Jahre Aufstand im "Zigeunerlager Auschwitz", Ehrung Hugo Höllenreiners für sein Lebenswerk". kalinka-m.org (in German). Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  6. ^ "28.11.2014 Award for Holocaust survivors Hugo Höllenreiner". rroma.org. 2014-11-28. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
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