Tag Archives: Genocide

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The Forgotten Holocaust

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The Genocide of Roma by the National Socialists is often called the forgotten Holocaust.

According to Jens-Christian Wagner, head of the Buchenwald memorial site, the commemoration of the mass deportation and murder of Sinti and Roma under National Socialism receives too little attention. “This is a topic that is in fact not nearly as present in public as the Shoah, i.e. the murder of European Jews,” Wagner told the German Press Agency.

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Ravensbrück: Memorial

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On August 2nd, a memorial plaque for the Sinti and Roma deported from Koblenz by the National Socialists will be unveiled at the Ravensbrück Memorial in Brandenburg. The occasion is the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the National Socialist Genocide of the Sinti and Roma.

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Oświęcim Museum and Roma

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From 1 August, the Małopolskie Voivodeship will take over the Museum of Remembrance of Oświęcim from the Oświęcim District and will co-run it together with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

As explained by the Marshal of Małopolska, Witold Kozłowski, after signing the document, the change of the museum’s organizer is aimed at expanding the scope of its activities. In that context, a Centre for Roma History and Culture will be established.

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Germany and the Genocide of the Roma

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Further commemorations planned on August 2nd in Darmstadt and in Ravensbrück.

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Austria: Holocaust Remembrance

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On the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma on August 2nd, the Diocese of Eisenstadt invites to a commemoration ceremony in Oberwart. Of the approximately 12,000 Austrian Roma and Sinti, only around 1,500 survived the Nazi terror. Of the approx. 8,000 Burgenland Roma, only 900 people, i.e. almost 11 percent, survived the Nazi terror system.

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Poland: Movie

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A documentary will be presented in Warsaw on July 15th. It is the last interview given by Krystyna Gil (1943-2021), Witness of History and Guardian of the Memory of the Roma Holocaust, before her death. She was a well-known activist and leader, and for many years the president of the Roma Women’s Association in Poland. On January 20, 2021, Krystyna Gil was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. As the Consul General of Germany, Michael Gross, wrote in the letter announcing the award, the award honours her many years of work for “intergenerational, future-oriented dialogue, universal values and for all the content that you, as a Witness of History, have been providing for years”.

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Poland: Commemoration

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On July 3, 1943, German gendarmes came to Szczurowa, Poland. Almost the entire community of Roma living in Szczurowa was murdered. The German police shot 93 Roma at the local cemetery. The German gendarme Engelbert Guzdek, was the main perpetrator.

On Sunday, July 9, 2023, at the mass grave of the Roma in Ratów, which is located in the local parish cemetery, it will take place at 13th memorial meeting with the participation of the Roma pianist from Slovakia, Mirosław Rač, and the Roma band Romano Iło from Nowa Huta.

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Magdeburg – Conference

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The conference, organized by the city archive is dedicated to a dark chapter in Magdeburg’s past. As a city spokesman announced, Verena Meier from the University of Heidelberg will speak about the genocide of Sinti and Roma under National Socialism and the difficult work involved in coming to terms with it.

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Documentary Play on the Genocide

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The documentary play “[Not] my story. Music” about the Roma genocide in the Ukrainian Transcarpatian region was presented in Uzhhorod by the Provocator theater studio.

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Lety

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Two articles on the Lety concentration camp and on the recent destruction of the pig farm that was on the site.

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Trnava: Exhibition

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Born in Trnava, Emília Rigová  has her own exhibition in Trnava for the first time. Yesterday, she opened the Untitled exhibition in the Synagogue – a space for contemporary art, in which she deals with the theme of the Roma Holocaust. She has been working on it for a long time. “Only now has she reached the place where she really belongs, and that adds a new semantic level to the work,” she told Trnavské rádio.

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Germany: Exhibition

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An exhibition on the on the Genocide of the Sinti and Roma, designed by the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial will be shown in the Flohburg in Nordhausen, Germany, opening on July 7th.

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Remembrance

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The German town of Neustrelitz, north of Berlin, will name a street after deported Sinti children who died in Auschwitz. The Street will be named Rose-Wagner-Groß Strasse after the 7 children.

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Josef Miker

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The portrait of an activist, originally from Slovakia but now from the Czech Republic who fights against hate.

What a destiny: His grandparents were shot by guardsmen, his parents met in a concentration camp. His father came from Velké Zalužice in Slovakia, where he owned huge plots of land on which a Roma settlement stood. His great-ancestor saved the life of his lord in the Battle of Slavkov, and he gave him extensive land in Slovakia for that.

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Slovenia and the Yugoslav Nostalgia

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Two young women produced a podcast tackling the Yugoslav Nostalgia that seems to exist currently in Slovenia.

In the beginning, the two women touched on the government’s recent cancellation of the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Communism. Zala Klopčič explained why the day was celebrated on May 17. “17. May 1942 was the first day when the communists carried out the first mass killing of Slovenian civilians on our soil, namely, it happened south of Ljubljana in the vicinity of Igo. The partisans killed 53 members of the Roma community, including children, a woman in her eighth month of pregnancy,” she reminded, adding that even today these people are not properly buried, because certain influential people on the Slovenian political scene do not allow their burial.

Good that they mention this!

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