Genocide Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/fr/tag/genocide/ Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:53:29 +0000 fr-FR hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Genocide Archives - rroma.org https://rroma.org/fr/tag/genocide/ 32 32 Genocide of the Roma https://rroma.org/fr/genocide-of-the-roma-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=genocide-of-the-roma-2 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:53:29 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27722 An exhibition on the Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era. What is unfortunate is the use of the […]

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]]> An exhibition on the Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era. What is unfortunate is the use of the word “Tsigane” in its title, and in the title of the article.

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]]> Poland: Memorial https://rroma.org/fr/poland-memorial-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=poland-memorial-5 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 07:13:15 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27658 A new memorial for 77 Roma who were murdered in Karczew, Poland, in 1943 is planned. During the interwar period, […]

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]]> A new memorial for 77 Roma who were murdered in Karczew, Poland, in 1943 is planned. During the interwar period, travelling Roma would come to the village of Przewóz (now part of Karczew) for wintering and rented rooms from local farmers. From 1939, Roma lived in the village, as the Germans banned them from travelling. The life of the local Roma community ended tragically on January 2, 1943. Several German soldiers surrounded the village and began to drag Roma out of their homes onto the streets. Anyone who resisted was immediately shot; a total of 77 people were killed during the executions.

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]]> Czechia, Roma, and the Genocide https://rroma.org/fr/czechia-roma-and-the-genocide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-roma-and-the-genocide Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:15:32 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27551 March 11, 1943, 642 Roma men, women and children were deported to Auschwitz Birkenau from the Protectorate of Bohemia and […]

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]]> March 11, 1943, 642 Roma men, women and children were deported to Auschwitz Birkenau from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. This was the beginning of the systematic extermination of Roma in that region.

For the majority of Czechoslovak society at the time, this remained on the fringes of interest. Although there were cases where local residents showed sympathy or tried to help, in general, there was little awareness of the fate of the Roma. And after the war, the tragedy of the Roma Holocaust was neglected for a long time. The participation of Czech gendarmes and camp commanders in the genocide of the Roma during World War II was denied for forty years under communism. The taboo was broken after the revolution by historian Ctibor Nečas and journalist Markus Pape, and courageous activists from among Roma also played their part. For example, Jan Hauer, Antonín Lagryn or Čeněk Růžička, all sons of Leti prisoners.

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]]> Kateřina Čapková https://rroma.org/fr/katerina-capkova/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=katerina-capkova Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:14:39 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27548 Kateřina Čapková currently works at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, where she researches the various political strategies towards […]

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]]> Kateřina Čapková currently works at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, where she researches the various political strategies towards Roma and Romnja during the Nazi era. In the future, Austria will also increasingly be a focus of her work. Her goal: to finally make historical findings accessible to the general public.

Čapková is a Czech historian and university professor specializing in the history of Roma. Her academic career began in the 1990s at Charles University in Prague. While still a student, she worked in the Department of Jewish Studies at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences.

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]]> Slovakia and the Tiso Regime https://rroma.org/fr/slovakia-and-the-tiso-regime/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slovakia-and-the-tiso-regime Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:46:56 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27519 Hana Kubátová (45) is a historian, she is dedicated to Holocaust research, and works at the Faculty of Social Sciences […]

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]]> Hana Kubátová (45) is a historian, she is dedicated to Holocaust research, and works at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. Her book “Where Foxes Say Good Night” about the relationship between Christian nationalism and the Holocaust in Slovakia is currently being published. She says: “When the Tiso regime wanted to create “new Slovaks”, it was easier to say who did not belong to them”. Roma and Jews were definitively part of the New Slovaks…

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]]> Czechia: Memorial https://rroma.org/fr/czechia-memorial/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-memorial Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:44:39 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27513 On April 2, 2025, the gates of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust Memorial in Moravia in Hodonín near Kunštát will […]

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]]> On April 2, 2025, the gates of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust Memorial in Moravia in Hodonín near Kunštát will open again after the winter break. This will be the 7th visitor season overall. The exhibition “Stories of Survivors” remains from last year, which presents the fates of Holocaust survivors of Roma and Sinti who were internment in the camp in Lety u Písku in the form of biographical medallions.

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]]> Treblinka https://rroma.org/fr/treblinka/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=treblinka Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:32:40 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27505 A new museum is being done in Treblinka, at long last. With the building of a new museum, Poland at […]

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]]> A new museum is being done in Treblinka, at long last.

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]]> Czech Memoirs https://rroma.org/fr/czech-memoirs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czech-memoirs Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:02:28 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27485 An article about the memoirs of Karolína Kozáková, née Růžičková, published under the title Journey through life in a gypsy […]

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]]> An article about the memoirs of Karolína Kozáková, née Růžičková, published under the title Journey through life in a gypsy wagon. It represent a unique testimony about the internment of Roma in the Ruzyně forced labour camp and their subsequent transport to the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp. It is from these memoirs published by the Museum of Romani Culture in the book Memoirs of Romani Women (2004) that the information leaflet prepared by the Prague Forum for Romani History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, for this year’s 82nd anniversary of this tragic event draws. It is the only known eyewitness testimony that captures the internment of Romani people in the Ruzyne forced labour camp.

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]]> Czechia: Commemoration https://rroma.org/fr/czechia-commemoration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-commemoration Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:11:59 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27466 On Monday, March 10, 2025, dozens of people commemorated the 82nd anniversary of the mass deportation of Roma and Sinti […]

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]]> On Monday, March 10, 2025, dozens of people commemorated the 82nd anniversary of the mass deportation of Roma and Sinti from Prague to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp with a memorial service in Ruzyne, Prague. The participants, most of whom wore black clothing, laid floral wreaths at the wooden statue. The event, which has been held at this location for the third year and was initiated by the Roma and Sinti Center, is organized by the Prague 6 district in cooperation with the Museum of Roma Culture and the Prague Forum for Roma History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

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]]> Prague: Memorial Service https://rroma.org/fr/prague-memorial-service/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=prague-memorial-service Sat, 08 Mar 2025 09:40:53 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=27412 The Prague Forum for Roma History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University invites you to a memorial service to […]

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]]> The Prague Forum for Roma History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University invites you to a memorial service to honour the memory of the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust

On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 3 p.m., a memorial service will be held in the park near the Old Square in Prague Ruzyne to mark the 82nd anniversary of the mass transport of Roma and Sinti from Ruzyne to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.

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