"Zeit des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit" - Dokumentation im RegenbogenKino

Documentary by Nina Gladitz,1982, 60 min, en) and discussion with Petra Rosenberg

On the 90th anniversary of the deportation of the Berlin Sinti*zze and Romn*ja to the Marzahn forced labor camp.
Testimonies of surviving Sinti*zze and Romn*ja from the Nazi forced labor camps, the selection of prisoners for the Riefenstahl film "Tiefland", their memories, the politics of the post-war period and the prevention of coming to terms with the past.

In May 1936, the Nazi forced labor camp Marzahn was set up in Berlin. The long-held anti-gypsy plans of the Nazi Party's "Racial Policy Office" were implemented shortly before the opening of the Olympic Games, and shortly afterwards hundreds of Berlin Sinti*zze and Romn*ja were persecuted by the Nazis and sent to the camp.

In 1936, National Socialist Germany adorned itself in front of the whole world with the staging of the Olympic Games, making the Nazi film director Riefenstahl world-famous.

In 1982, documentary filmmaker Nina Gladitz filmed a series of interviews with Josef Reinhardt, one of the few survivors who reported on the camp and the fact that the Nazi director selected extras from the "Roma camps" specifically for one of her films.
Gladitz accompanies Reinhardt on his search for clues and observes how his confrontations are blocked.
After its publication, Riefenstahl sued and the documentary disappeared into the "poison cupboard".

We are showing this important testimony and cordially invite you to attend!
After the film there will be a discussion with the director of the Marzahn Forced Labor Camp Memorial, Petra Rosenberg.

- Berlin Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime - League of Anti-Fascists