Little Sidonie was a Sinti-Roma girl, adopted as an infant by an Austrian family, and raised as their own daughter. She considered herself Austrian, despite her dark skin setting her apart from her peers; Sidonie was remembered as cheerful, outgoing, and brave, winning many friends among her schoolmates and neighbors. She was dearly loved by her family, and loved them in return.
In March 1943, an employee from the youth welfare office came to collect the child, under the guise of a "reunion" with her biological mother. Instead, Sidonie was torn from her family and sent alone to the Roma assembly camp in Tirol, and then to Auschwitz.
Little Sidonie was all alone, missing her family dearly. In Auschwitz's Roma camp, she was starving and diseased, but also brokenhearted --- and, according to those who witnessed her death, this is what killed her. Sidonie could not live without her family. She died of grief at the age of ten.
In March 1943, an employee from the youth welfare office came to collect the child, under the guise of a "reunion" with her biological mother. Instead, Sidonie was torn from her family and sent alone to the Roma assembly camp in Tirol, and then to Auschwitz.
Little Sidonie was all alone, missing her family dearly. In Auschwitz's Roma camp, she was starving and diseased, but also brokenhearted --- and, according to those who witnessed her death, this is what killed her. Sidonie could not live without her family. She died of grief at the age of ten.
Little Sidonie was a Sinti-Roma girl, adopted as an infant by an Austrian family, and raised as their own daughter. She considered herself Austrian, despite her dark skin setting her apart from her peers; Sidonie was remembered as cheerful, outgoing, and brave, winning many friends among her schoolmates and neighbors. She was dearly loved by her family, and loved them in return.
In March 1943, an employee from the youth welfare office came to collect the child, under the guise of a "reunion" with her biological mother. Instead, Sidonie was torn from her family and sent alone to the Roma assembly camp in Tirol, and then to Auschwitz.
Little Sidonie was all alone, missing her family dearly. In Auschwitz's Roma camp, she was starving and diseased, but also brokenhearted --- and, according to those who witnessed her death, this is what killed her. Sidonie could not live without her family. She died of grief at the age of ten.
In March 1943, an employee from the youth welfare office came to collect the child, under the guise of a "reunion" with her biological mother. Instead, Sidonie was torn from her family and sent alone to the Roma assembly camp in Tirol, and then to Auschwitz.
Little Sidonie was all alone, missing her family dearly. In Auschwitz's Roma camp, she was starving and diseased, but also brokenhearted --- and, according to those who witnessed her death, this is what killed her. Sidonie could not live without her family. She died of grief at the age of ten.
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