– Bulgaria and Romania Mark Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. In: Balkan Insight. 02.08.2018. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/gallery/bulgaria-and-romania-mark-roma-holocaust-memorial-day-08-02-2018 [link-preview url=”http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/gallery/bulgaria-and-romania-mark-roma-holocaust-memorial-day-08-02-2018″]
Tag Archives: Genocide
Slovakia: Do not Forget
A summary of Holocaust for Roma in Slovakia and the Commemorations and remembrance on Holocaust.
– Rómsky holokaust nesmie upadnúť do zabudnutia, pripomenú ho viaceré podujatia. In: Spravy Pravda. 01.08.2018. https://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/478859-romsky-holokaust-nesmie-upadnut-do-zabudnutia-pripomenu-ho-viacere-podujatia/ [link-preview url=”https://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/478859-romsky-holokaust-nesmie-upadnut-do-zabudnutia-pripomenu-ho-viacere-podujatia/”]
Austria: August 2nd?
There is a proposal to officialise August 2nd in Austria as the day of the commemoration of Roma victims of the Holocaust.
– Mandl schlägt 2. August als offiziellen österreichischen Gedenktag für Roma und Sinti vor. In: OTS. 01.08.2018. https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20180801_OTS0032/mandl-schlaegt-2-august-als-offiziellen-oesterreichischen-gedenktag-fuer-roma-und-sinti-vor [link-preview url=”https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20180801_OTS0032/mandl-schlaegt-2-august-als-offiziellen-oesterreichischen-gedenktag-fuer-roma-und-sinti-vor”]
EU Commemoration
May they rest in peace!
– Roma Holocaust Memorial Day: EU commemorates ‘forgotten victims’. In: Euronews. 02.08.2018. http://www.euronews.com/2018/08/02/roma-holocaust-memorial-day-eu-commemorates-forgotten-victims- [link-preview url=”http://www.euronews.com/2018/08/02/roma-holocaust-memorial-day-eu-commemorates-forgotten-victims-“]
EU and Roma Holocaust Day
The official EU statement on Roma Holocaust and the transcript of the EU Commission vice president Timmermans and chairman Jourova.
Too bad they still use “Porrajmos” and even worse that they misspell it.
– European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day (Pharrajimos). In: Council of Europe. 02.08.2018. https://www.coe.int/en/web/holocaust/-/european-roma-holocaust-memorial-day-pharrajimos-
– Statement by First Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioner Jourová ahead of Roma Holocaust Memorial Day on 2 August. In Council of Europe. 01.08.2018. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-18-4749_en.htm [link-preview url=”https://www.coe.int/en/web/holocaust/-/european-roma-holocaust-memorial-day-pharrajimos- “]
Slovenia and Holocaust
Slovenia will mark the International Roma Holocaust Day with several events.
– Roma Holocaust remembered in Slovenia. In: STA. 01.08.2018. https://english.sta.si/2539494/roma-holocaust-remembered-in-slovenia [link-preview url=”https://english.sta.si/2539494/roma-holocaust-remembered-in-slovenia”]
August 2 in Babi Yar
A Roma commemoration will be held on August 2nd, for the international Roma Holocaust day on the site of the notorious Babi Yar massacres where there were also many Roma victims.
– Rally for International Day of Roma Holocaust to be held in Kyiv. In: 112. 30.07.2018. https://112.international/society/rally-for-international-day-of-roma-holocaust-to-be-held-in-kyiv-30708.html [link-preview url=”https://112.international/society/rally-for-international-day-of-roma-holocaust-to-be-held-in-kyiv-30708.html”]
Requiem for Auschwitz
The Roma Philharmonic performed the Requiem for Auschwitz during the Wiesbaden Culture weeks.
– „Requiem für Auschwitz“ im Rahmen der Kulturwochen gegen Antiziganismus in Wiesbaden. In: Wiesbadener Kurier. 21.06.2018. http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/freizeit/kunst-und-kultur/musik/requiem-fuer-auschwitz-im-rahmen-der-kulturwochen-gegen-antiziganismus-in-wiesbaden_18865768.htm# [link-preview url=”http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/freizeit/kunst-und-kultur/musik/requiem-fuer-auschwitz-im-rahmen-der-kulturwochen-gegen-antiziganismus-in-wiesbaden_18865768.htm#”]
Roma Philharmonic
After a long suspense, the Roma Philharmonic finally succeeded in playing the “Requiem for Auschwitz” in the context of the Wiesbaden weeks on Roma culture and against anti-Tsiganism.
Good that it finally worked out!
– Roma- und Sinti-Philharmoniker: ein Orchester für Millionen. In: Hessenschau 17.06.2018. https://www.hessenschau.de/kultur/roma–und-sinti-philharmoniker-ein-orchester-fuer-millionen,roma-sinti-philharmoniker-100.html
– Riccardo M Sahiti dirigiert am Dienstag im Staatstheater Wiesbaden das „Requiem für Auschwitz“. In: Echo Online. 17.06.2018. http://www.echo-online.de/freizeit/kunst-und-kultur/musik/riccardo-m-sahiti-dirigiert-am-dienstag-im-staatstheater-wiesbaden-das-requiem-fuer-auschwitz_18853218.htm [link-preview url=”https://www.hessenschau.de/kultur/roma–und-sinti-philharmoniker-ein-orchester-fuer-millionen,roma-sinti-philharmoniker-100.html “]
Switzerland and Holocaust
An article on Ceija Stojka in the Swiss press, and information about the Holocaust on Roma. This is news in Switzerland, as Roma generally are only beggars or travellers …
Good.
– Le travail de mémoire de Ceija Stojka. In: Le Temps. 25.05.2018. https://www.letemps.ch/culture/travail-memoire-ceija-stojka [link-preview url=”https://www.letemps.ch/culture/travail-memoire-ceija-stojka”]
A Tale
The DDR book “Nackt unter Wölfen” [Naked among wolves] was for a long time a classic. A tale of heroic communists who liberated Buchenwald from inside, and who saved a Jewish child. The child effectively existed and survived. But survived he did because another child was sent to his death in Auschwitz. He was a Sinto.
– Welcher Junge kam nach Auschwitz? In: Die Zeit. 16.05.2018. https://www.zeit.de/2018/21/das-kind-auf-der-liste-annette-leo [link-preview url=”https://www.zeit.de/2018/21/das-kind-auf-der-liste-annette-leo”]
Italian Commemorations
A commemoration of the 16th of May in Rome.
– Rom, sinti e caminanti: la Resistenza è inziata il 16 maggio 1944 ad Auschwitz. In: Agora Vox. 16.05.2018. http://www.agoravox.it/Rom-sinti-e-caminanti-la.html
– Rom e Sinti, Agnone: il campo di concentramento a loro destinato e la memoria rimossa. In: La Republica. 16.05.2018. http://www.repubblica.it/solidarieta/diritti-umani/2018/05/16/news/rom_e_sinti_agnone_il_campo_di_concentramento_a_loro_destinato_e_la_memoria_rimossa-196585927/?refresh_ce [link-preview url=”http://www.agoravox.it/Rom-sinti-e-caminanti-la.html “]
Resistance
The 16th of May marks the day where Roma in Auschwitz took arms and resisted.
This day needs to be remembered and commemorated.
– The Forgotten History of Romani Resistance. In: Open Society Foundations. 15.05.2018. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/forgotten-history-romani-resistance [link-preview url=”https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/forgotten-history-romani-resistance”]
Requiem for Auschwitz
The Roma Philharmonic finally managed to find the funding to play the “Requiem for Auschwitz” in the context of the Weeks against Anti-Tziganism in Wiesbaden.
Good!
– Das Requiem der Sinti und Roma ist gesichert. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. 15.05.2018. http://www.fr.de/rhein-main/alle-gemeinden/wiesbaden/wiesbaden-das-requiem-der-sinti-und-roma-ist-gesichert-a-1505301 [link-preview url=”http://www.fr.de/rhein-main/alle-gemeinden/wiesbaden/wiesbaden-das-requiem-der-sinti-und-roma-ist-gesichert-a-1505301″]
On Sunday, May 13th, a commemoration was held for the victims of the Holocaust on the site of the former concentration camp of Lety. The pig farm that stood on the camp site was closed very recently and this is the first time the commemoration can be held there.
– Roma Holocaust victims commemorated. In: The Prague Daily Monitor. 14.05.2018. http://praguemonitor.com/2018/05/14/roma-holocaust-victims-commemorated
– https://www.facebook.com/sdruzeniromea/videos/10156423409676543/
Ede and Unku
A German Sinto, a distant relative of Unku, a Sintica who died in Auschwitz, recently wrote the continuation the book Ede and Unku. That book told the story of a friendship between a worker and a Sintica and was forbidden by the Nazis in 1933.
– Die wahre Geschichte von Ede und Unku. In: Deutschlandrundfunk. 07.05.2018. http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/janko-lauenberger-die-wahre-geschichte-von-ede-und-unku.1310.de.html?dram:article_id=417351
– Das letzte Kapitel Unkus qualvoller Tod in Auschwitz. In: Berliner Zeitung. 07.05.2018. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/30126746 [link-preview url=”https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/30126746″]
Roma und Sinti Philharmonic
A concert of the Roma Philharmonic was a public hit. Unfortunately, a collect by the ensemble in order to be able to perform during the “Requiem for Auschwitz” in Wiesbaden is still missing 8’000 EUR.
Please look at the second article and help!
– „Roma- und Sinti-Philharmoniker“ begeistern rund 300 Zuhörer. In: GN Online. 30.04.2018. https://www.gn-online.de/nordhorn/roma-und-sinti-philharmoniker-begeistern-rund-300-zuhoerer-234373.html
– Spenden für Konzert. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. 30.04.2018. http://www.fr.de/rhein-main/alle-gemeinden/wiesbaden/wiesbaden-spenden-fuer-konzert-a-1497170 [link-preview url=”https://www.gn-online.de/nordhorn/roma-und-sinti-philharmoniker-begeistern-rund-300-zuhoerer-234373.html “]
Holland and Holocaust
The Dutch are speaking about Roma victims of the Holocaust. This time from Den Bosch, where 51 Roma were transferred in May 1944 to a camp where all but 13 died.
– Over Sinti en Roma in oorlogstijd Den Bosch is bitter weinig bekend. In: BD. 02.05.2018. https://www.bd.nl/s-hertogenbosch/over-sinti-en-roma-in-oorlogstijd-den-bosch-is-bitter-weinig-bekend~acf7143b/ [link-preview url=”https://www.bd.nl/s-hertogenbosch/over-sinti-en-roma-in-oorlogstijd-den-bosch-is-bitter-weinig-bekend~acf7143b/”]
Jacob’s Colours
The novel about the Roma Holocaust and its victims, Jacob’s Colours, has been translated into Czech… Let’s hope it is also read.
– Novel about the Holocaust and its Romani victims, “Jacob’s Colours”, now in Czech translation. In: Romea. 30.04.2018. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/novel-about-the-holocaust-and-its-romani-victims-jacob-s-colours-now-in-czech-translation [link-preview url=”http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/novel-about-the-holocaust-and-its-romani-victims-jacob-s-colours-now-in-czech-translation”]
Lety – More on the Memorial
Some further news about Lety. The Czech state will not pay for the memorial but is funding the destruction of the farm and the clean-up of the site.
– Czech state not to pay for Roma Holocaust memorial in Lety. In: The Prague Daily Monitor. 26.04.2018. http://praguemonitor.com/2018/04/26/czech-state-not-pay-roma-holocaust-memorial-lety [link-preview url=”http://praguemonitor.com/2018/04/26/czech-state-not-pay-roma-holocaust-memorial-lety”]
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