Events marked the commemoration of the deportation of Sinti from Munich to Auschwitz, 76 years ago.
– Sinti und Roma. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 12.03.2019. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/wissenstipp-sinti-und-roma-1.4364214
– Deportiert in den Tod. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 14.03.2019. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/verfolgung-deportiert-in-den-tod-1.4368187 [link-preview url=”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/wissenstipp-sinti-und-roma-1.4364214 “]
A new memorial for the Roma concentration camp of Dubnice. Roma were executed there in February 1945 following a typhus epidemy in the camp.
– VIDEO: Tragédiu pripomína kríž z nábojníc. In: Pravda. 22.02.2019. https://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/503163-video-tragediu-pripomina-kriz-z-nabojnic/ [link-preview url=”https://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/503163-video-tragediu-pripomina-kriz-z-nabojnic/”]
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/18/stumbling-stones-a-different-vision-of-holocaust-remembrance [link-preview url=”https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/18/stumbling-stones-a-different-vision-of-holocaust-remembrance”]
The Lithuanian Department of National Minorities has proposed the introduction of August 2nd as a national day of remembrance of the Roma Holocaust.
– Департамент нацменьшинств Литвы предлагает включить в памятные даты день геноцида ромов. In: RU.DELFI. 08.02.2019. https://ru.delfi.lt/news/live/departament-nacmenshinstv-litvy-predlagaet-vklyuchit-v-pamyatnye-daty-den-genocida-romov.d?id=80319277 [link-preview url=”https://ru.delfi.lt/news/live/departament-nacmenshinstv-litvy-predlagaet-vklyuchit-v-pamyatnye-daty-den-genocida-romov.d?id=80319277″]
An exhibition on the Roma Holocaust in the UK. Good, as this is not a topic that is often talked about there.
– Hard-hitting exhibition shines light on Nazi persecution of Gypsy and Roma families. In: The Courier. 31.01.2019. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/818599/hard-hitting-exhibition-shines-light-on-nazi-persecution-of-gypsy-and-roma-families/ [link-preview url=”https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/818599/hard-hitting-exhibition-shines-light-on-nazi-persecution-of-gypsy-and-roma-families/”]
Roma activists market the commemoration of the Holocaust yesterday in Pristina.
– Kosovar Roma Mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In: Radio Free Europe. 27.01.2019. https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovar-roma-mark-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/29734258.html [link-preview url=”https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovar-roma-mark-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/29734258.html”]
The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma sharply criticised the AfD party for its views on History and society following their walkout during a Holocaust commemoration.
– Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma kritisiert AfD. In: Deutschland Funk. 26.01.2019. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ausgrenzung-zentralrat-deutscher-sinti-und-roma-kritisiert.1939.de.html?drn:news_id=970585 [link-preview url=”https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ausgrenzung-zentralrat-deutscher-sinti-und-roma-kritisiert.1939.de.html?drn:news_id=970585″]
An interesting article in the Roma context – namely that the Nazis actually wiped out the Roma middle class during the Holocaust. This is new.
– HOW THE NAZIS WIPED OUT THE ROMANI MIDDLE CLASS. In: The Norwich Radical. 25.01.2019. https://thenorwichradical.com/2019/01/25/how-the-nazis-wiped-out-the-romani-middle-class/ [link-preview url=”https://thenorwichradical.com/2019/01/25/how-the-nazis-wiped-out-the-romani-middle-class/”]
Guess what, several members of a regional German parliament in Augsburg walked out (YES) during a Holocaust Remembrance commemoration in the Landtag. A Sintica is aghast.
– Augsburger Sinti-Sprecherin entsetzt über AfD-Eklat im Landtag. In: BR24. 25.01.2019. https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/augsburger-sinti-sprecherin-entsetzt-ueber-afd-eklat-im-landtag,RG65HiI [link-preview url=”https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/augsburger-sinti-sprecherin-entsetzt-ueber-afd-eklat-im-landtag,RG65HiI”]
The Italian president Matarella warns against hate and racism ahead of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
– Holocaust Remembrance Day a call to vigilance against hatred, Italy’s president warns. In: Xinhua. 25.01.2019. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/25/c_137772029.htm [link-preview url=”http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/25/c_137772029.htm”]
The 27th of January is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
– International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Places of memory and mourning. In: Deutsche Welle. 25.01.2019. https://www.dw.com/en/international-holocaust-remembrance-day-places-of-memory-and-mourning/a-47237904 [link-preview url=”https://www.dw.com/en/international-holocaust-remembrance-day-places-of-memory-and-mourning/a-47237904″]
Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier recalled the crimes committed by the National Socialists against Sinti and Roma. It is good that the rightly so-called “forgotten holocaust” is getting more and more into the country.
– Erinnerung an “vergessenen Holocaust”. In: Dom Radio. 23.01.2019. https://www.domradio.de/themen/soziales/2019-01-23/erinnerung-vergessenen-holocaust-steinmeier-kultur-der-sinti-und-roma-oft-verdraengt-und [link-preview url=”https://www.domradio.de/themen/soziales/2019-01-23/erinnerung-vergessenen-holocaust-steinmeier-kultur-der-sinti-und-roma-oft-verdraengt-und”]
Krimhilde Malinowski, a Holocaust survivor, died this week.
– Holocaust-Zeitzeugin gestorben. In: BR24. 10.01.2019. https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/holocaust-zeitzeugin-krimhilde-malinowski-aus-wuerzburg,REkaFOq
– Holocaustüberlebende Krimhilde Malinowski verstorben. In: Ha Galil. 09.01.2019. http://www.hagalil.com/2019/01/malinowski/ [link-preview url=”https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/holocaust-zeitzeugin-krimhilde-malinowski-aus-wuerzburg,REkaFOq “]
Following the decision in the Netherlands Railway to compensate people who were deported by train to concentration camps or their relatives, a feud between Roma organisations has erupted. Accusations are being made, all in the open.
This is bad.
– Nederlandse vereniging Roma en Sinti reageert op beschuldigingen Steinse club. In: Limburger. 30.12.2018. https://www.limburger.nl/cnt/dmf20181230_00086201/nederlandse-vereniging-roma-en-sinti-reageert-op-steinse-club [link-preview url=”https://www.limburger.nl/cnt/dmf20181230_00086201/nederlandse-vereniging-roma-en-sinti-reageert-op-steinse-club”]
A long article about the Romni who was the model of a standard book in the DDR “Ede and Unku”. She really existed and was killed in Auschwitz in 1944.
– Kinderbuch-Klassiker “Ede und Unku”Was aus Unku wurde. Im: Spiegel Online. 02.01.2019. http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/ddr-kinderbuch-was-wurde-aus-ede-und-unku-a-1243180.html [link-preview url=”http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/ddr-kinderbuch-was-wurde-aus-ede-und-unku-a-1243180.html”]
A book review of Wolfgang Freitag’s book “Der Fall Karl Horvath” who was deported in 1939 to Dachau as an “asocial” and freed from Mauthausen in 1945, but then indicted as a war criminal, judged, condemned and upon review of the case, freed in 1952.
Serbians were involved in the arrest, deportation, and killing of Roma during World War Two. A chapter that is largely occulted in Serbia nowadays.
– Serbia’s Forgotten Role in the Roma Holocaust. In: Balkan Insight. 17.12.2018. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbia-s-forgotten-role-in-the-roma-holocaust-12-14-2018 [link-preview url=”http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbia-s-forgotten-role-in-the-roma-holocaust-12-14-2018″]
The Czech MP Miroslav Rozner will be prosecuted for his statements on the Lety concentration camp. Together with Tomio Okamura, he doubted that a genocide has taken place and dubbed Lety an open camp.
– LE DÉPUTÉ SPD MILOSLAV ROZNER SERA POURSUIVI POUR SES DÉCLARATIONS SUR LE CAMP DE LETY. In: Radio Praha. 11.12.2018. https://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/infos/le-depute-spd-miloslav-rozner-sera-poursuivi-pour-ses-declarations-sur-le-camp-de-lety [link-preview url=”https://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/infos/le-depute-spd-miloslav-rozner-sera-poursuivi-pour-ses-declarations-sur-le-camp-de-lety”]
Commemorations in Germany in on the “Auschwitz Erlass” the deportation order for Roma and Sinti to death camps 76 years ago.
And a controversy because the AfD – whose speaker says Hitler did also good things – was not invited in Sachsenhausen …
– Gedenkfeier für Opfer des NS-Völkermordes an Sinti und Roma. In: MiGazin. 14.12.2018. http://www.migazin.de/2018/12/14/gedenkfeier-opfer-ns-voelkermordes-sinti/
– Eklat bei Kranzniederlegung für Sinti und Roma. In: MAZ Online. 13.12.2018. http://www.maz-online.de/Brandenburg/Eklat-bei-Kranzniederlegung-fuer-Sinti-und-Roma-in-Gedenkstaette-Sachsenhausen
– Deutscher Bundesrat gedenkt Völkermord an Sinti und Roma. In: Tyroler Tageszeitung. 14.12.2018. https://www.tt.com/ticker/15127506/deutscher-bundesrat-gedenkt-voelkermord-an-sinti-und-roma [link-preview url=”https://www.tt.com/ticker/15127506/deutscher-bundesrat-gedenkt-voelkermord-an-sinti-und-roma”]
The Slovak president, Andrei Kiska, remembered the Roma victims of the Holocaust in Zvolen, and stated that the Roma Holocaust is part of the Slovak History.
– Kiska si vo Zvolene pripomenul rómske obete holokaustu. In: MY Zvolen. 10.12.2018. https://myzvolen.sme.sk/c/22005103/kiska-si-dnes-vo-zvolene-pripomenul-romske-obete-holokaustu.html
– Kiska na židovskom cintoríne vo Zvolene: Na začiatku každej ľudskej nenávisti je slovo. In: Zvolen 24. 10.12.2018. https://zvolen.dnes24.sk/kiska-na-zidovskom-cintorine-vo-zvolene-na-zaciatku-kazdej-ludskej-nenavisti-je-slovo-317275 [link-preview url=”https://myzvolen.sme.sk/c/22005103/kiska-si-dnes-vo-zvolene-pripomenul-romske-obete-holokaustu.html “]
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