THE BOY FROM AUSCHWITZ

PETER HÖUENBEINER- THE SINTO WHO WAS ALSO A JEW

This is the obituary written for a man who first had his concentration camp number removed and decades ater had it tattooed back in - with an apparentiv small but in terms of meaning huge change: instead of the letter Z, which was burned into the fourvearold boy in the Auschwitz concentration camp be bad an artfully curved " j endraved into his left forearm in Januarv 2015.

According to the orally transmitted family narrative, Peter's mother's grandmother was Jewish, a born "Levi". This was also reported by his siblings. Peter Höllenreiner

had survived the concentration cams Auschwitz Ravensbrick Mauthausen and

Bergen-Belsen. Having escaped hell. he returned to his native cit of Munich in 1945 at the age of six. His school vears beain and the world meets him as if nothing had happened "In the back in the last rewI' was the school motto The eyclusion continued Peter Höllenreiner and his family had been subiected to National Socialist persecution as so-called "Gvosies" Despite democracv, a new form of government and the declaration of human rights - the old preiudices remained. And Peter lived in the country of the former perpetrators. it is his home!