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Anna W., a Gypsy survivor describes medical experiments at Ravensbrück.
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[translated:]
"I was sterilized myself, but in Ravensbrück.
Q: In Ravensbrück. How old were you back then?
Sixteen.
Q: And did you know what...
Not quite sixteen.
Q: Did you know what kind of...
No, I did not know that. They said they were just examining, but the pain afterwards, so then you realized.
Q: That was of course very, very...
There were several young girls, of, how old were they, twelve years, twelve, fifteen-, sixteen-year-olds.
Q: And Friedel [her husband], too?
No.
Q: No, not him. Because I know that they also did this to the boys...
Yes, I even know some where they did it.
Q: Yes, I think Ranko B., no?
Yes.
Q: He spoke about it. This is something very terrible, for a woman, no?
Very much, yes. For now I have to suffer from it. Since I could have had a family, could have, I could have had grandchildren who would be twenty years by now, my grandchildren, right..."
Anna W. has lived in Germany after the war. Her husband was active in the Gypsies' political efforts to gain recognition of their suffering by the post-war German government. When, in the early 1980's, he built the first memorial for Gypsies at Auschwitz-Birkenau without having obtained permission, he was arrested by the Polish authorities. Anna W. never had children.