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About the artifacts
Rita (pictured at upper right) and Rolanda Reinhardt, infant twins born to a Roma (Gypsy) family, were taken from their parents by the Nazis and their collaborators. But the horror was just beginning. The babies were used in medical experiments conducted at a German university hospital. Rita somehow survived those inhuman experiments but Rolanda did not, perishing at the age of six weeks from the cruelties carried out on her in the name of “science.”
The Roma mother of Rolanda and Rita Reinhardt was allowed to give birth solely because she was carrying twins. These Reinhardt family photos and household items are gifts to the Museum from the surviving twin, Rita Prigmore.
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