Tag Archives: Holocaust

République tchèque Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est

Lety: At last

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Lety: At last

The destruction of the pig farm on the site of the former concentration camp of Lety has finally started.

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Bonn, Roma, and Holocaust

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Bonn, Roma, and Holocaust

The Bonn district council has repeatedly postponed the decision on the memorial plaque for the Sinti from Bonn who deported during National Socialism, which should be installed in front of the station. The State Association of German Sinti and Roma North Rhine-Westphalia criticizes the slow process.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Pologne

August 2nd

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August 2nd

Commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the liquidation by the Germans of the so-called of the Gypsy camp will be held on August 2 at the former KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the Association of the Roma in Poland announced on Wednesday. August 2 is the Day of Remembrance for the Genocide of the Roma. During World War II, the Germans killed about 500,000. Roma and Sinti.

République tchèque Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est

Lety – at last

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Lety – at last

The demolition of the pig fram on the site of the former Roma concentration camp of Lety can begin. It took time.

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Germany, Holocaust, and Roma

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Germany, Holocaust, and Roma

Claudia Roth, a prominent German Green politician and one of the vice presidents of the Bundestag. She is also currently serving as Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media has declined to attend a ceremony marking the 100thbirthday of Philomena Franz, where the Sintica and Holocaust survivor will tell about her life.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Pologne

Auschwitz Museum

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Auschwitz Museum

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Auschwitz Museum, a commemorative album “75 years of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial Site” has been published. It is divided into six chapters: the establishment of the museum, the survivors at the memorial site, preservation of authenticity, education and memory, visits and the caretakers of the memorial site.

Photographs illustrating events in the history of the museum are accompanied by quotations from letters and entries in the commemorative book, mainly by leaders of states and international organizations, which emphasize the role and importance of the place. The album ends with a calendar of the most important events in the history of the museum.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovaquie

Slovakia and its History

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Slovakia and its History

The young Slovak historian Viktória Rigová focused her research on so called “problematic” youth. The result of her research is a very interesting and thought-provoking book, Youth over the Abyss, in which she presents the results of her research into a neglected area of Slovak social history. It monitors the social care of children and youth during the interwar period of Czechoslovakia and the Slovak State, i.e. in the period 1918-1945. In a narrower focus, it focuses on children and youth, referred to as “problem youth”.

  • Človek sa zločincom nerodí, no ideológovia slovenského klérofašizmu si to však nemysleli. In: Dennik. 02.07.2022. https://dennikn.sk/blog/2919040/clovek-sa-zlocincom-nerodi-no-ideologovia-slovenskeho-klerofasizmu-si-to-vsak-nemysleli/
Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Pologne

75 years

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75 years

Polish president Andrzej Duda wrote a letter to the participants of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum in which he stated that it is our duty to guard the truth and the memory of the fate of millions of helpless victims.

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Condemnation

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Condemnation

A 101 year old former Sachsenhausen concentration camp guard was condemned to five years of prison. The anti-Semitism commissioner and the antiziganism commissioner of the Federal Government, the Central Council of Sinti and Roma and other voices welcomed the judge’s verdict.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Pologne

Commemoration

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Commemoration

A commemoration to the victims of a massacre of  80 years ago took place in Lutowiska in Bieszczady. On June 22, 1942, the Germans murdered 650 people there, and soon another 150 thereafter. The victims were Jews and about thirty Roma. The commemoration was attended, among others, by the Ambassador of Israel in Poland, Yacov Livne and Adam Bartosz – Vice President of the Association of Polish Roma.

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Austria – Commemoration

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Austria – Commemoration

The Baranka Park commemoration took place for the 14th time last Saturday. The association “Voice of Diversity” organises these to commemorate the Roma and Sinti victims of National Socialism and to celebrate and convey the life and culture of the Roma and Sinti as well as Jewish and Viennese culture.

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