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Jakob "Johnny" Bamberger (born Dec 11 1913, died 1989) was a German boxer and later an activist in the Gypsy civil rights movement.
Jakob "Johnny" Bamberger (born Dec 11 1913, died 1989) was a German boxer and later an activist in the Gypsy civil rights movement.
Life
Jakob Bamberger was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, the son of Julius Bamberger, a horse trader and owner of a traveling cinema. In 1935, the Nazis forced the family to cease operation of the theater; from 1935 to 1939, Jakob worked for the national railway.
Bamberger's boxing career began in 1933. In 1934, he was appointed to the Olympic boxing team of which he was a part until 1936, when the team was purged of "non-Aryans".[1] On April 15 1938, he lost the championship match to Nikolaus Obermauer and became German Vice Champion in the Flyweight class. In 1939, he was runner-up at the European Championship in Dublin.[2] In 1940, he was third in his class at the championship in Königsberg.[3]
His family was deported to a concentration camp in 1940. Jakob attempted to escape to Czechoslovakia but was apprehended at the border and subsequently interred at Flossenbürg on 5 Jan 1942. Upon his arrival, Bamberger was classified as "antisocial" and assigned the black triangle. On 14 Dec 1943, he was transferred to Dachau.[4] In Dachau, he was subjected to the Nazi sea trials for 18 days. In 1945, he was transferred to Buchenwald. In April of the same year, he was liberated when U.S. troops intercepted the Flossenbürg-bound transport on which he was held.
Most of Bamberger's family were murdered in the Holocaust, including his mother and two siblings. For many years after the war he was engaged in litigation for reparations, which he was awarded in 1969. The German government claimed that Bamberger's kidney injuries were a sports-related injury, and only the minimum reparation amount was paid. Bamberger joined the Association of German Sinti and in 1980 he and eleven other Gypsy activists returned to Dachau on a hunger strike.[5][6][7]
References
- ^ "Pflichtschuldige Aufarbeitung"
- ^ ["Interview mit Jakob Bamberger" in: Jörg Boström, Uschi Dresing, Jürgen Escher, Axel Grünewald: Das Buch der Sinti S.156-158]
- ^ Michail Krausnick, 1981. ["Michail Krausnick: Die Zigeuner sind da. Roma und Sinti zwischen Gestern und heute." Würzburg 1981, S. 156]
- ^ [Nevipe - Rundbrief des Rom e.V. Nr. 42 (Jan. 2010) S. 4f.; Krausnick: Wo sind sie hingekommen? Der unterschlagene Völkermord an den Sinti und Roma. Bleicher Verlag, Gerlingen, 1995, S. 80, 81]
- ^ Ulrich Vöikiein Hungerstreik der Sinti. Was damals Rechtens war… Demonstration nicht ohne Erfolg. In: Die Zeit vom 18. April 1980
- ^ KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau: Zeitleiste: 1945 - Gegenwart
- ^ Theuer, Marco. "Holocaust - die Schicksale verfolgter KZ-Boxer"
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