text:  Hermione Horvat, a Sinti woman from Austria, survived deportation to Auschwitz and Ravensbrück. My parents had settled. My father was a plumber. We had a little house and a vineyard and a small area of woods. I and my five siblings never went hungry. But everything changed in the spring of 1939 when the German troops marched in. This was the start of a bad time for us. We had no rights in any aspect of our lives. We were outcasts.