The Sinto Reinhard F. hat to perform forced labor in agriculture already before 1939. In 1941 he was imprisoned and only narrowly survived as a slave laborer in Mauthausen and other concentration camps.

Short Biography

• 1923: Born near Insterburg in East Prussia
• 1937: Leaves school; compulsory agricultural labor<
• 1941: Arrest, odyssey through prisons, committed to the Mauthausen concentration camp, slave labor in a stone quarry
• 1942: Slave labor in the concentration camps Auschwitz, Monowitz, Rydultau and Blechhammer
• 1945: Death march, liberated in Mauthausen/Ebensee
• For the time being he is incapacitated for work, stateless, living in Bayreuth
• 1952: First marriage
• 1953: Moves to Aschaffenburg
• 1957: After a period of work disability, he works in construction
• 1958: Second marriage, two sons
• 2014: Death at the age of 91 years

Interview Information

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• Video interview in German
• Interviewed on April 23, 2005 by Alexander von Plato; camera: Elena Danchenko
• Interview duration:  6:30 hours
• Transcription: Jörg Klepel
• Subset: "Germany - FernUni Hagen"

A biographical short film (duration 25 minutes) from the interview with Helena B.-Sz. has been produced for the German-language educational material "Video Testimonies for School Education". Together with a biographical map, a glossary and additional documents, it is available in the learning software.