"I do everything I can," says Rosa Schneeberger, "so that my grandchildren and other poor children don't have to go through this". The 88-year-old recalls her experiences of the Roma holocaust, a long-forgotten genocide carried out by the Nazis that researchers are now trying to document.
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00:00Head, look down, but with eyes to the camera, a little smile.
00:07Smile.
00:09Smile.
00:11Super nice.
00:12Very nice.
00:13Very nice.
00:16Is that okay?
00:17Of course.
00:18Yes.
00:19Because if I am asked like that, I will be forgetful.
00:23In the 20th district in Florensdorf, next to the old Danube.
00:29...gave the grace shield.
00:32And in any case, they stood up.
00:41And then we looked down every day in the morning.
00:44They had the chains around their necks, and that's how they pulled it out.
00:49They were all frozen stiff.
00:52They covered themselves with straw, with hay, so poor.
00:58And every day, I don't know how many, they froze.
01:01They made a mass grave, they threw it in there,
01:06they put lime on it, and then something else again.
01:12My cousin and I were always together, and we were so hungry.
01:18But we always saw that the people, the horses, always brought something in.
01:25When they were gone, we sneaked into the horse stable,
01:30and we took horse food, and we found something that was a little soft,
01:37and we ate it.
01:40We were finally full.
01:43And then we hurried out, when we heard that someone was coming.
01:47So the horses had better food than us.
01:52Yes, I saw them, I have my angels everywhere.
02:00Hugo Taubmann, and this is his father, Peter Taubmann.
02:05My mother.
02:10These are my parents.
02:13This is my mother.
02:25I do what I can, so that my grandchildren and the other poor children
02:31don't have to go through this, that something like this happens again.
02:37So that all people are equal.
02:41Yes, they are all up there.