Tag Archives: Holocaust

This coming Monday will celebrate the anniversary of the Roma rebellion in the Roma camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. This unprecedented event is one of the essential elements of our history. (…) It is a symbol. Courage and heroism should be a beacon for contemporary Roma. Determination and resistance, even in a seemingly hopeless situation, give hope
– said the president of the association Roman Kwiatkowski in an interview with PAP.

• Romowie upamiętnią rocznicę buntu swych przodków w KL Auschwitz. In: Radio Krakow. 19.05.2022. https://www.radiokrakow.pl/aktualnosci/malopolskazachodnia/romowie-upamietnia-rocznice-buntu-swych-przodkow-w-kl-auschwitz

A year ago, at the cemetery in Imbramowice, near Wrocław, the construction of a monument financed by the Institute of National Remembrance was completed on a collective grave of 50 Polish citizens of Roma nationality, murdered by the Germans on February 2 and 3, 1943 in Imbramowice and Wolbrom. At that time, due to the limitations related to the pandemic, it was not possible to consecrate the tombstone. It was successfully consecrated last Sunday.

• W Imbramowicach poświęcono pomnik pamięci Romów [ZDJĘCIA]. In: Olkuski Przeglad. 27.04.2022. https://przeglad.olkuski.pl/w-imbramowicach-poswiecono-pomnik-pamieci-romw-zdjecia/

On June 19, 2020, during the renovation and construction works at the market square in Tarnogród, the remains of Roma Holocaust victims were found. The exhumation, carried out by the Institute of National Remembrance, uncovered the remains of  22 people: 8 men, 3 women, probably 3 women, 8 children and 2 fetuses. The Roma were murdered by German gendarmes in May 1942.

The remains were buried in the parish cemetery in Prostynia. The ceremony began in the area of ​​the Execution Site at the monument to the Roma and Sinti located next to the Treblinka I Penal Labor Camp, with the participation of the Roma community and invited guests.

• Uroczystości pogrzebowe w Prostyni. In: Muzeuym Treblinka. 08.04.2022. https://muzeumtreblinka.eu/2022/04/08/uroczystosci-pogrzebowe-w-prostyni/