{"id":1584,"date":"2014-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/16-07-2014-memories-of-holocaust-victims-are-lost-with-the-graves\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T07:48:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T06:48:54","slug":"16-07-2014-memories-of-holocaust-victims-are-lost-with-the-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/16-07-2014-memories-of-holocaust-victims-are-lost-with-the-graves\/","title":{"rendered":"16.07.2014 \u201cMemories of Holocaust victims are lost with the graves\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Stoll (2014) and the SWR  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(2014) report on the expiry of the concessions of graves of Holocaust  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsurvivors. The graves of Rroma who survived the Nazi genocide are more than  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tjust resting places to the members of the minority. They are also memorials to  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe victims of National Socialism and thus have an historical value. Approximately  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t3,500 tombs are affected. Romani Rose calls for conversion of the tombs of Holocaust  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsurvivors to honour-graves with eternal resting right. It is significant that  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe Jewish cemeteries were granted this status a long time ago, whereas the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma have been denied this expression of respect until now: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cThe chairman of the Central Council of  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGerman Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, has urged the federal and state governments  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton Monday to do more for the tombs of Sinti and Roma. The graves are also  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tplaces of memory to the victims of the Holocaust, he said in Heidelberg. [&#8230;]  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cIf the graves are eliminated, then the families also lose the memory to a part  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof their biography and to the people who have fallen victim to an unique racist  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcrime\u201d, says Romani Rose [&#8230;]. He goes even further: he states that the sites are  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talso \u201clearning sites\u201d for the population: through them, one conceive what was  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonce possible in Germany and what appears inconceivable today\u201d<\/em> (SWR 2014).  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Rroma Holocaust was only recognized in 1982 by the chancellor Helmut  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSchmidt. This only happened after massive protests by Rroma in Germany, who did  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnot want to tolerate the continuing discrimination against them in the post-war  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tperiod any longer. Rose emphasizes that the survivors\u2019 graves are also places  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof remembrance for the rest of the family members who did not return from the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconcentration camps. He appeals to the policymakers that one finally recognises  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe graves as eternal resting places.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stoll, Sebastian\/epd (2014) \u201cMit den Gr\u00e4bern gehen  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tErinnerungen an Opfer des Holocaust verloren\u201d In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">MiGAZIN online<\/em> vom 8.7.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.migazin.de\/2014\/07\/08\/mit-graebern-erinnerungen-opfer-holocaust\/\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.migazin.de\/2014\/07\/08\/mit-graebern-erinnerungen-opfer-holocaust\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SWR (2014) Gr\u00e4bern von  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSinti und Roma droht die R\u00e4umung. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">SWR  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonline<\/em> vom 8.7.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swr.de\/landesschau-aktuell\/bw\/rhein-neckar\/zentralrat-deutscher-sinti-und-roma-heidelberg-graebern-von-sinti-und-roma-droht-die-raeumung\/-\/id=1582\/did=13729342\/nid=1582\/1f3760s\/\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.swr.de\/landesschau-aktuell\/bw\/rhein-neckar\/zentralrat-deutscher-sinti-und-roma-heidelberg-graebern-von-sinti-und-roma-droht-die-raeumung\/-\/id=1582\/did=13729342\/nid=1582\/1f3760s\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoll (2014) and the SWR (2014) report on the expiry of the concessions of graves of Holocaust survivors. The graves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[597,14,15],"tags":[92,633,124,63,24,640,23,53,133],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","tag-discrimination","tag-genocide","tag-holocaust","tag-racism","tag-roma","tag-romani-rose","tag-rroma","tag-sinti","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12659,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/12659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}