Lost Earrings – The Story of Pauline Eckstein

In this episode, podcast host Lovro Kralj talks with Théophile Leroy about an object gone missing; a beautiful pair of earrings. This piece of jewellery can be seen on photographs of a Sinti woman called Pauline Eckstein, wearing them in her ears. During her wartime plight, the earrings went missing, lost or stolen. Pauline Steinberger was born on 13 October 1886 in Seebronn, Germany, to parents who were of Sinti background. Her father was an itinerant musician. When she was 21, she was marri...