Leonard Stöcklein

Leo Stöcklein was born in 1993 and studied Latin, history and politics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg. During his studies he accompanied the Sinto Siegfried Heilig, a survivor of the genocide, to eyewitness talks at schools. The encounters with Siegfried Heilig resulted in an increased interest in the minority, so that since 2019 he has been working on an international oral history project to examine the genocide of Roma in Belarus. Since completing his first state examination for the grammar school teaching profession, he has been working as a research assistant on a dissertation project with the working title "Memorials of the Sinti and Roma" at the Chair for Didactics of History in Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Late achieved recognition: Sinti and Roma in Neumünster

04/06/2023 by Leonard Stöcklein

Among the German Sinti and Roma there is hardly a family that was not affected by the persecution by the National Socialists. At least three quarters fell victim to the genocide, so that only a few thousand survived, the majority of whom returned to their old homes.[1] Marlo Thormann, born in 1960, and Kelly Laubinger, … Read more