Melanie Spitta
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Melanie Spitta
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Melanie Spitta was a German Sinti film-maker. She was born in 1946 in Hasselt, Belgium, in a Sinti family, and died on 28 August 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family had moved from Germany in 1938 in an attempt to escape persecution by the Nazis, but her six siblings died in Auschwitz concentration camp, where her mother was also imprisoned but survived, with damaged health. The family later moved to Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In her film-making and other activism she worked to
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Sinti and German film-maker (1946–2005)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Spitta
date created:
2024-04-14T11:43:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T05:16:51Z
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