Hugo Höllenreiner

Life

Hell Reiners parents chose the middle name of her son, to protect him with it before the gathering threat posed by the Nazis. He grew up in Munich in Giesing district in the Deisenhofener road. His father owned a house there and operated a horse act. He was arrested with the family on 8 March 1943 and deported on 16 March 1943 in the gypsy camp at Auschwitz, where Josef Mengele tortured him and his brother with brutal medical experiments. About the camp Ravensbrück and Mauthausen came Höllenreiner to Bergen- Belsen. He and his five siblings and both parents survived the persecution of Sinti in the Third Reich. 36 family members were killed.

After the war, the family lived again in Giesing, later in Waldtrudering and then in Ingolstadt. The 12 - to 13 -year-old Höllenreiner began a trade with brushes and thus contributed significantly to the family income.

Since the late 1990s Höllenreiner reported in numerous presentations as a witness about his experiences.

Award

On 2 May 2013, received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award at the Jewish Museum in Munich. Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Israeli Jewish community in Munich and Upper Bavaria, gave the eulogy and presented the award.

Representation in literature, film and music

In a series of interviews Höllenreiner also told the author Anja Tucker man of his fate during the Nazi era. This was for your book " Do not think we'll stay here! " The life story of the Sinto Hugo Höllenreiner in 2006, the German Youth Literature Prize. The book was also nominated for the Scholl Prize in 2006 and is on the children's and YA List Summer 2008 by Radio Bremen and Saarland Radio. A sharp negative review about Tucker 's processing of the life story makes Wilhelm Solms in the journal Antiziganism. In particular, he accuses her of boundary changes, boundary violations, and too little attention to the reflected power hell Reiners.

About hell Reiners fate of the Angelus Mortis documentary was filmed in 2007.

Adrian Gaspar Coriolanus led from 2008 's interviews with Höllenreiner and put his musical memories in his first orchestral work Romani Symphonia - Bari Duk order, an oratorio for solo bass, mixed choir and orchestra.