Daily Archives: November 25, 2022

Romani Rose, the chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma is a new member of the International Auschwitz Council. The Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki appointed him to the committee. The Council advises the Polish government on all matters relating to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial. Other members include Yad Vashem Chairman Dayan and World Jewish Congress President Lauder. Rose warned that nationalists and right-wing extremists in many European countries were trying to deny and relativize the crimes of the Holocaust against six million Jews and 500,000 Sinti and Roma. Every form of Holocaust denial and falsification of history must be opposed. Education programs specifically for young people at historical sites of persecution and extermination are important “to counteract anti-Semitism, anti-Gypsyism and racism in our societies,” Rose explained.

• Romani Rose in den Internationalen Auschwitz-Rat berufen. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. 24.11.2022. https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/romani-rose-in-den-internationalen-auschwitz-rat-berufen-100.html
• Polen beruft Romani Rose in Internationalen Auschwitz-Rat. In: WDR. 24.11.2022. https://www1.wdr.de/kultur/kulturnachrichten/romani-rose-auschwitz-rat-100.html