A bracelet stolen in Auschwitz from a German Sinto was returned to his heirs.
An exhibition on the Roma Holocaust can be seen in Prague on the Vitkov.
“Today we pay a pious tribute to the memory of the Roma, the almost 500,000 children, women and men victims of the Holocaust. Entire families perished in this genocide, being subjected to horrific brutalities. Our thoughts also go out to those who survived the horrors and their descendants. This year, in Romania, we commemorate 80 years since the first deportations of Roma to Transnistria by the Antonescu regime. About 25,000 Roma were deported to Transnistria and condemned to live in inhuman and unsanitary conditions, deprived of food and forced to do forced labour. Of these, not more than half had the strength to survive. The Romanian state has assumed responsibility for this crime, a dark episode of our history,” states a message sent by President Klaus Iohannis.
Bravo, that is a real first.
A word of warning during the Slovenian commemoration of the Roma Holocaust Day in view of hate speech and racism towards Roma.
Croatia commemorated the Roma Holocaust on August 2nd. This commemoration is always controversial due to the rehabilitation of several Croatians Ustaša. The Fascist Croatian regime effectively killed near ALL Croatian Roma in World War Two, a fact that they currently prefer to ignore.
Some extracts and reactions in the Polish Press on the commemorations of the Roma Holocaust.
Some articles in the Ukraine of the August 2nd commemoration of the Roma Holocaust.
The Slovak president Čaputová even spoke Romanes on the occasion of the August 2nd commemorations in Slovakia.
The Czech Republic commemorated August 2nd. The Prague municipality flew the Roma flag and several other commemorations were held.
Some extracts of the numerous articles in the German Press on the August 2nd commemorations and on the speech of Bodo Ramelow, the president of the German Parliament in Auschwitz.
Today, we honor the #memory of the victims of the #RomaGenocide during WW2. Several 100s of thousands were deported & killed.
— Swiss Peace and Human Rights (@SwissPeaceHR) August 2, 2022
Our responsibility is to #remember & stand up against #racism & for #pluralism et #HumanRights. @TheIHRA
📽️ Statement by Ambassador S. Geissbühler ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/5iQSYUyH9z
Commemorations of the Roma Holocaust are being held in many places in Europe. One of the main is being held today in Auschwitz in the presence of the President of the German Parliament Bodo Ramelow.
In connection with the upcoming Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day (August 2), the ethnographer, historian and currently advisor to the Slovak Minister of Justice in the field of human rights, Zuzana Kumanová stated that about 22,000 European Roma passed through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and about 19,000 of them never returned.
As usual, this is factually right, but effectively wrong. There were 22’000 REGISTERED Roma in Auschwitz. But by the same token, “only” roughly 300 thousand Jews. People who were immediately killed were not registered.
Several cities in Germany are organising commemorations for the Holocaust Remembrance Day for Roma. For example Frankfurt, Augsburg, Darmstadt.
Germany Federal Council’s President Bodo Ramelow will be traveling to Poland on 2 August to mark the European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Roma. There he will take part in the international commemoration event at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and give a speech.
An exhibition in Ireland commemorating the Roma Holocaust.
Trees planted to commemorates the victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp were cur down by vandals.
Bad.
A movie on Romani Rose, Chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma where he speaks about his family.
Another article and video of the start of the demolition of the pig farm on the site of the former concentration camp of Lety.
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