Memorial Signs for the Winter family,
Sintpertstraße 9-15

The married couple Barbara and Joseph Winter worked as traders and lived with their son Julius Winter in a flat in Augsburg. From the end of 1938, the Sint*izze and Rom*nja were increasingly discriminated against and disenfranchised in Germany. On 13 March 1943, Barbara, Joseph and Julius Winter were arrested and deported to the "gypsy camp" in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp just five days later.

A few weeks later, Barbara Winter was murdered there. Her son Julius Winter may have been the victim of pseudo-medical experiments; the exact date of his death is not known. His father Joseph Winter was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 and had to perform extremely hard forced labour there. He was later transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Just a few weeks after the camp was liberated, Joseph Winter died in the Bergen-Belsen military hospital on 16 June 1945 as a result of forced labour and imprisonment in the concentration camps.

On Thursday, 11 April 2024, a memorial service for the Winter family was held in Sintpertstraße, where the WInter family lived in a small garden house before their deportation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Speakers included city councillor Winfried Kaum, representing the mayor, and Marcella Reinhardt, Chairwoman of the Regional Association of German Sinti & Roma Swabia, as well as Carmen Dullinger-Oßwald from District Committee 17, Obergiesing-Fasangarten and the student representative of the secondary school on Perlacher Straße. Representatives of the school management and many pupils also took part in the memorial service. After the speeches, the Memorial Signs for Barbara, Joseph and Julius Winter were placed.