Memorial Signs for the Reinhadt family,
Sintpertstraße 15

Rudolf and Anna Reinhardt had six children: Siegfried, Herbrecht Josef, Martin, Margarete, Rigo and Adolf. Their father Reinhardt was a popular musician and worked as a bandmaster. As a Sinti, he was deported in July 1942 via the Flossenbrück concentration camp to the Nauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, where he was murdered in October 1942.

The children Martin and Herbrecht Josef were separated from their family and sent to a reformatory school by the Nazis because they were Sinti. Their son Siegfried Reinhardt was arrested in November 1942 and sentenced to juvenile detention for skipping school. The Gestapo deported him to Auschwitz-Birkenau and from there to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1944, where all traces of him were lost.

Anna Reinhardt was deported together with her five children Margarete, Martin, Herbrecht Josef, Rigo and Adolf to the ‘gypsy camp’ at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in March 1943. There, the children died as a result of medical experiments, abuse, hunger, and disease. Their mother, Anna Reinhardt, was deported by the SS from Auschwitz-Birkenau to various other concentration camps. Shortly before the end of the war, she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.