Hunger strike by survivors on the grounds of the Dachau concentration camp memorial site, Germany, April 1980. From 4 to 11 April 1980, twelve Sinti and a social worker from Munich went on a hunger strike to protest against the continued discrimination against Sinti and Roma in the Federal Republic of Germany. Four survivors took part in the hunger strike on the site of the former Dachau concentration camp despite the serious health risks: Franz Wirbel (1922–1986, left), survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, Hans Braun (1923–1999, centre), also a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Flossenbürg, Jakob Bamberger (1913–1983, right), survivor of Flossenbürg, Dachau and Buchenwald, and Ranco Brantner (1931–1996), a victim of forced sterilisation.
The hunger strike attracted a great deal of media attention worldwide and suddenly brought the hitherto barely recognised persecution during National Socialism into the public eye.
