Genocide – rroma.org https://rroma.org Sun, 31 May 2026 11:23:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Genocide – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Jasenovac and Croatia https://rroma.org/jasenovac-and-croatia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jasenovac-and-croatia Sun, 31 May 2026 11:23:20 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32789 The Croatian President of the Republic, Zoran Milanović, visited the Roma Memorial Center Uštica, where he planted a Tree of Peace. During his visit, he lit a candle and laid a wreath in front of the Wall of Pain at the Roma Memorial Cemetery. So far, 21 mass graves of Roma victims have been identified in this area and more than 16’000 victims have been identified.

]]> Roma Genocide in Croatia https://rroma.org/roma-genocide-in-croatia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-genocide-in-croatia Fri, 22 May 2026 15:10:28 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32670 Eighty years after the deaths of more than 16,000 Roma in the Uštica camp, part of the Jasenovac Ustasha camp, some places of death – such as the one near Jezerin where 38 Roma were killed in 1944 – still have neither a grave nor a memorial, it was pointed out on Tuesday at a forum at the Kali Sara Roma Association.

]]> Dumitru Miclescu https://rroma.org/dumitru-miclescu-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dumitru-miclescu-2 Tue, 19 May 2026 16:19:17 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32639 The statement from the Coalition on Roma Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Recognition on the passing of Dumitru Miclescu, a Romanian survivor of the Genocide of the Roma during the Holocaust.

]]> Dumitru Miclescu https://rroma.org/dumitru-miclescu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dumitru-miclescu Mon, 18 May 2026 14:56:16 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32630 On May 15th, Dumitru Miclescu passed away at the age of 92.

He was born on March 8th, 1934, and was one of the last Roma Holocaust survivors from Romania who carried within him the living memory of deportation to Transnistria and the suffering endured by Roma families during the genocide of the Roma during the Holocaust.
In 2025, he adressed the world from the the podium of the United Nations General Assembly. Mr. Dumitru Miclescu stood there not only for himself, but for all those who never had the chance to speak. In his testimony, he spoke about the suffering of deportation to Transnistria, to the camps of Vapniarka, Tiraspol, Coronica, and Odessa, and about the way death accompanied Roma families from the very beginning of deportation.
May he rest in peace.

Te avel o drom angla leste puterdo i te avel i phuv lokhi!

]]> Westerbork https://rroma.org/westerbork-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=westerbork-3 Mon, 18 May 2026 14:52:23 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32621 Against the backdrop of the commandant’s residence at Camp Westerbork, Theater Group Komyounit performs an impressive rendition of The Voice of a Guitar. Roma were deported from this camp.

]]> Roma Resistance Day https://rroma.org/roma-resistance-day-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-resistance-day-2 Sat, 16 May 2026 15:35:45 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32606 May 16th marks the 82nd anniversary of Romani Resistance Day. In 1944, Roma and Sinti resisted the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

What is not quite correct in the ORF Program is their statement that this uprising “saved thoudans of lives”. We simply do not know, and it did not prevent the destruction of the “Zigeunerlager” on August 2nd, 1944.

]]> Hamburg: Commemoration https://rroma.org/hamburg-commemoration-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hamburg-commemoration-2 Sat, 16 May 2026 15:34:53 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32603 On May 16, 1940, police officers arrested approximately 1,000 Sinti and Roma in Hamburg and Northern Germany. At the memorial site at Hanoverian Station in Lohsepark in HafenCity, Roma and Sinti will commemorate the fact that their ancestors were deported to concentration camps by the National Socialists 86 years ago on Saturday. A wreath will be laid around 2 p.m. With this annual day of remembrance, they also want to remember the survivors who still have to live with the consequences of this injustice.

]]> Hodonín u Kunštátu Memorial https://rroma.org/hodonin-u-kunstatu-memorial/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hodonin-u-kunstatu-memorial Sat, 16 May 2026 15:34:05 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32600  A meeting of descendants of Roma and Sinti Holocaust survivors took place at the Hodonín u Kunštátu Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Moravia on Saturday, 16 May 2026 to honour the memory of the Roma and Sinti victims of Nazism. The event was organized by the Association of Roma and Sinti in the Czech Republic together with the Brno Christian Aid Association.

]]> Khamoro Festival: Ma bistrass! – Against Forgetting! https://rroma.org/khamoro-festival-ma-bistrass-against-forgetting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=khamoro-festival-ma-bistrass-against-forgetting Fri, 15 May 2026 15:03:12 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32588 What contribution can art and culture make to remembering the genocide of the Roma and Sinti? This question will be addressed in the discussion in the context of the exhibition of the same name.

This collaborative event between the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) and the Goethe-Institut brings together German and Czech stakeholders from civil society and the cultural sector, inviting them to reflect, discuss, and develop new perspectives for an inclusive and future-oriented culture of remembrance. The discussion takes place in conjunction with the photography exhibition of the same name, which will be on display on Kampa Island in Prague from May 27 to June 10.

]]> Czechia and Minorities https://rroma.org/czechia-and-minorities-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-and-minorities-2 Mon, 11 May 2026 16:15:52 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32541 The Czech Constitution rejects calling any group of people “parasites” or considering somebody “inferior”, Senate President Miloš Vystrčil (Civic Democratic Party – ODS) explained at the commemorative ceremony for the Romani and Sinti victims of the Holocaust in Lety u Písku, referring to the recent words of Foreign Minister Petr Macinka and Government Commissioner for Climate Policy and the Green Deal, Filip Turek, both of the Motorists for Themselves party. The gathering honored the memory of the victims of the concentration camp for Roma and Sinti that was established in Lety in 1942.

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