Flensburg (plaque)
Historical background
The Sinti lived at Norderstraße, just off the Flensburg Fjord, which used to be a poor port area. In the mid-1930s, the buildings (some cottages from the 17th century) were demolished and replaced with new ones, and the Gypsies were resettled to the southern outskirts of the city (Valentinerallee) with a ban on returning to their former apartments. In 1940, approximately 50 Sinti were transported to one of the camps in Hamburg, from where they were deported to Poland.
Description of commemoration
The bronze plaque is located on the brick part of the building (upper floors are plastered), to the right of the entrance door, between the windows.
The 40×70 cm plaque is green but the inscriptions are clearly visible. The inscription in German, below the “handwritten” engraved signature of the cast’s author, reads: “S AMLER”.
Inscriptions
In German:
Hier wohnten // Karl Weiß (*1872) | Antonie Weiß (*1875) / Amalie Weiß (*1900) | Rosine Weiß (*1899) / Selma Weiß (*1901) | Christof Weiß (*1922) // 1935 wurden sie als Zigeuner in das / Lager Valentinerallee am Stadtrand / zwangsumgesiedelt und 1940 zusammen mit weiteren / Sinti aus Flensburg von den Nationalsozialisten / deportiert und in Kielce/Polen ermordet.
Translation:
Here lived:
Karl Weiß (born 1872)
Amalie Weiß (born 1900)
Selma Weiß (born 1901)
Antonie Weiß (born 1875)
Rosine Weiß (born 1899)
Christof Weiß (born 1922)
In 1935 those Gypsies were forcibly resettled to the Valentinerallee camp in the suburbs, from where in 1940 they were deported by National Socialists and murdered in Kielce / Poland along with other Sinti from Flensburg.
Date of the unveiling
August 2, 2008
Author
Siegbert Amler
Initiator
A private initiative, whose supporters included, a historian Broder Schwensen and Matthäus Weiß (The President of the German Sinti and Roma Association in Schleswig-Holstein)
Address
Norderstraße 104, 24939 Flensburg, Germany
Location
54°47’39.5″N 9°25’53.3″E
54.794306, 9.431472
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Materials
Björn Marnau/Stephan Linck: “Im Januar 1944 in Kielce/Polen verstorben.” Die Flensburger “Zigeuner” in den Jahren 1922 bis 1945, in: Stadtarchiv Flensburg / Institut für Zeit- und Regionalgeschichte Schleswig / Universität Flensburg (Hrsg.): Ausgebürgert. Ausgegrenzt. Ausgesondert. Flensburger Beiträge zur Zeitgeschichte, Band 3, Flensburg 1998, S. 190-222.
http://gedenkorte.sintiundroma.de/index.php?ortID=115
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