us-005578-irn515082-irn517657
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn515082-irn517657/acquisitions/1
identifier: irn517657
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn515082-irn517657/alternateIDs/1
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Small, rectangular, raised pile hooked wool yarn rug with a red field and a symmetrical geometric pattern. There is a red outer border, then an inner border of red, green, and blue squares outlined in brown. In the center is a repeating stepped diamond in brown, gray, and red with brown side extensions set upon a red, rectangular field. In each corner of the rectangle a jagged arrow shapes with repeating patterns in red and white. The rug is hooked onto a white string grid backing which is visible due to wear. The rug is extremely worn and frayed.
has or had holder: us-005578
archival history: The rug was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Rita Prigmore, the daughter of Gabriel Reinhardt and Theresia Winterstein Seible.
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
scope and content: Small patterned hooked rug used as a shoe mat in the wagon of Rita Prigmore and her family when she was a child in Wurzberg, Germany, after World War II. The Winterstein family had traveled widely in Western and Central Europe until the Nazi regime restricted Sinti migrations in the 1930s. Rita's parents, Theresia Winterstein and Gabriel Reinhardt, met in 1941 when they both worked at the Stadttheater in Wurzburg. Persecution of the Sinti was escalating. They were no longer allowed to work at the theater. Several members of Theresia's family were forced to agree to sterilization. Theresia and Gabriel decided to have a child, and Rita and her twin sister, Rolanda, were born in 1943. The infants were taken from their parents by Nazi eugenicists and used in medical experiments. Only Rita survived and was returned to her parents in 1944 by the German Red Cross.
title: Small hooked rug used in the wagon of a Sinti family
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1945-01-01
record resource extent: overall: Height: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) | Width: 22.000 inches (55.88 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
type: RecordSet
is or was included in: us-005578-irn515082
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
biographical history: Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born January 7, 1913, in Marbach into a family with a long musical heritage. He studied at a music conservatory in Stuttgart and played violin in a band with his 4 brothers, until the band disbanded in the late 1930s under restrictions established by the Nazi regime. The twins’ mother was Theresia Winterstein, born December 21,1921, in Manheim. Her parents met in 1941 when they were both performing at the Wurzburg Stadttheater. In 1941, several members of her mother’s family were brought to Gestapo headquarters where they were forced to sign sterilization authorization forms. They were threatened with deportation if they refused. Both Theresia and Gabriel were no longer permitted to perform at the Stadttheater. Before Theresia's sterilization was scheduled, she made a decision with Gabriel to get pregnant. By the time she was called in for the procedure in 1942, she was three months pregnant with twins. When this was discovered by the racial hygienists, she and her family were detained and an inquiry was sent to Berlin to determine what should be done. The response was that Theresia should be allowed to continue the pregnancy on condition that the babies be turned over to the clinic at the University of Wurzburg as soon as they were born. There, Dr. Werner Heyde, professor of neurology and psychiatry, and a key member of the Nazi euthanasia program, was conducting research on twins. Throughout her pregnancy, Theresia and Gabriel were under constant surveillance. The twins were born in the presence of Dr. Heyde at the University of Wurzburg. In the first few weeks after they were born, they were allowed brief stays at home with their parents, but otherwise were confined to the clinic. On one occasion, the twins were released to their parents for a propaganda photo shoot of Sinti parents strolling with their babies along the Do…
has record set type: Item
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1950-12-31