The figure is an impressive memorial commemorating the genocide of the Sinti and Roma during the Nazi era. The small bronze figure was created in 1997 by the artist Otto Pankok. It shows the Sinti girl Ehra with disheveled hair, holding a small ball in her hand. The memorial symbolizes the innocence and pain of the victims. Ehra, whose official name was Ida Meinhardt, was one of the few survivors of the Holocaust. Pankok was friends with many of Düsseldorf's Sinti. He created the artwork to commemorate the more than one hundred people who were deported from the Höhenweg camp and murdered. The figure of Ehra is not only a work of art, but also an important historical testimony that calls for reflection and remembrance of the atrocities of the past.
