{"id":1092,"date":"2014-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/01-10-2014-remembering-instead-of-suppressing-addressing-the-rroma-holocaust-at-german-schools-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:50:45","slug":"01-10-2014-remembering-instead-of-suppressing-addressing-the-rroma-holocaust-at-german-schools-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/01-10-2014-remembering-instead-of-suppressing-addressing-the-rroma-holocaust-at-german-schools-2\/","title":{"rendered":"01.10.2014 Remembering instead of suppressing: addressing the Rroma Holocaust at German schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mirwald (2014) reports \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton the work of Petra Rosenberg, chairman of the national association of German \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSinti and Roma in Berlin-Brandenburg, as an expert on thematic days in German \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tschools. Rosenberg continues the work of her father, Otto Rosenberg, which campaigned \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tuntil his death for the equality of the Rroma and informed about the history of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe minority: \u201cthe 62-year-old graduate \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tteacher described the terrible experiences that her father documented in the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbook \u201cThe burning glass\u201d. The young audience, who in the classroom is currently \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlearning about the Third Reich, learned that Otto Rosenberg, who was one of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfounding fathers of the civil rights movement of the Sinti and Roma in Germany, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twas able to write down his memories only in old age. Her father was a broken \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tman, who was never able to work again. He woke up at night, cried and asked why \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\the had survived as the only one of eleven siblings. \u201cAs a child I didn\u2019t know \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tanything. I only felt the grief, took his hand and cried with him\u201d, Petra \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRosenberg described scenes from her childhood. […] It was shocking to hear \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat doctors and scientists that had questioned and examined Otto Rosenberg in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1936 as race researchers in the camp Berlin-Malzahn, were able to practice \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tafter the war in Frankfurt am Main, and that the policeman who sent Otto \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRosenberg to Auschwitz, later worked in Ludwigsburg as a detective in a high \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tposition.\u201d <\/em>Even after the war ended, discrimination against Rroma therefore \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcontinued, and it took the collective protest of many Holocaust survivors and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttheir descendants, so that the injustices were finally officially recognized. Unfortunately, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe prejudices about the minority continue until today, as the debate on the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tso-called \u201cpoverty immigrants\u201d reveals.<\/p>\n