Winter time : memoirs of a German Sinto who survived Auschwitz
Winter, Walter Stanoski, 1919-2004
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In this title German Sinto Walter Winter relates his remarkable wartime experience. One of nine children, he was conscripted into the German navy only to be discharged on 'racial grounds'. In 1943, together with two siblings, he was deported to the 'Gypsy Camp' of Auschwitz-Birkenau. This rare account from a survivor of Gypsy concentration camps during World War II relates how German Sinto Walter Winter was discharged from the German navy in 1943 on racial grounds and was deported to Auschwitz with his brother and sister. The atrocities he witnessed, including the death of his wife and unborn child, are told in stark, unflinching detail. As well as reporting horrific persecutions, Winter recalls moments of personal bravery in which he beat up an SS guard and confronted the notorious Dr. Mengele to request extra rations for starving Sinti children on his block. As the Gypsy culture is generally predisposed not to dwell on the past, this memoir tells a rare story infused with a quiet hopefulness that suggests Winter retained his spirit, courage, and sense of fairness in the face of unspeakable cruelty.
Main title:
Winter time : memoirs of a German Sinto who survived Auschwitz / Walter Winter ; translated, annotated and with a foreword by Struan Robertson.
Author:
Imprint:
Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2004.
Collation:
xi, 179 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-177).Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781902806389 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.531808991497B WIN
LC class:
D810.G9
Language:
EnglishGerman
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Subject:
Winter, Walter Stanoski, 1919-Birkenau (Concentration camp)Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- GermanyRomanies -- Germany -- BiographyWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, GermanBiographyBiography & non-fiction proseTrue war & combat storiesThe HolocaustGermanyEuropean historySecond World WarEthnic studiesPrisoners of war
BRN:
594475