Another article about the newly erected monument for the Roma victims of the Genocide in Liberec, Czechia. The monument especially commemorates the children who were killed during the war.
The entire Roma population of the region was wiped out during the war.
A new paper and hybrid seminar from the Trinity College in Dublin on the Roma and Sinti women who were abused in the Nazis’ biomedical experiments during the Nazi regime.
A video of the commemoration of the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust.
Jana Kokyová, chairwoman of the Roma Holocaust Compensation Committee, recalled the tragic fate of the Roma and Sinti during the Holocaust at a memorial meeting in Prague-Ruzyn on the 11th of March. In her speech, she emphasized that almost 90% of the Czech Roma and Sinti were exterminated and that this chapter of history is still neglected. She pointed to personal family experiences with Nazism and expressed concern that history might repeat itself. She criticized the insufficient representation of Roma history in school curricula and called for the support of educational programs that would help build a fairer and more tolerant society. At the same time, she drew attention to the current increase in extremism and the need for financial support for the Roma and Sinti Centre to continue its important work.
Another article on the inauguration of the Encyclopaedia of the Genocide of the Roma.
The first Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) for Sinti and Roma in Dresden have been unveiled.
The new Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam retraces the lives and fate of the 102’000 Jews and 220 Roma and Sinti who were deported from that country during World War Two.
An article in the Slovak press about the release of the Encyclopaedia.
During the inauguration, the head of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, announced this at the presentation of the encyclopedia in Berlin’s documentation center for Nazi crimes Topography of Terror.
He also pointed out that the genocide of the Roma was neglected by politicians and scientists for a long time. The professional mapping of Nazi atrocities against the Roma has now been changed by the work of Karola Fings from the University of Heidelberg, who leads the internet encyclopaedia project.
The site of encyclopaedia of the Genocide of the Roma is now online.
The encyclopaedia of the Genocide of the Roma was launched yesterday. This press article is an interview of the project leader, Dr. Karola Fings.
Another article on the Encyclopaedia of the Genocide of the Roma which will be formally inaugurated today.
An article about the forthcoming inauguration of the Encylopaedia of the Roma Genocide that will be released online on March 5th.
A program of free seminars for young people devoted to the fate of the Roma and Sinti in the German Auschwitz camp was prepared by the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. The institution announced that they would last from April to December.
Paweł Sawicki from the press office of the Auschwitz Museum, of which the Education Centre is a part, announced on Tuesday that the participants will visit the former camp with a guide during their stay and will also take part in the “Extermination of Sinti and Roma” workshop, which will take place in the former camp block 13. “Semminars will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from April to December, excluding holidays and holidays. The program can be run in Polish, English and German. The museum does not cover travel costs,” Sawicki said.
The 81st anniversary of the first transport to the Roma camp in Auschwitz was commemorated.
The Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová was in Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia to commemorate the victims of the mass murder of Roma in the Dubnica detention camp in 1945.
May they rest in peace, and congratulation to the president for this participation.
A reportage on the vanished Roma settlements of the Austrian Burgenland.
An exhibition of painting of Čeja Stojka is currently open in the Wende Museum in Culver City, in greater Los Angeles.
The book “Samudaripen Roma u Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska” by Dragoljub Acković is the first of its kind that documents the horrific crimes committed by Ustasha regime against Roma. It was presented yesterdayThe book written in an encyclopedic format, very detailed and comprehensive, relying on an exhaustive number of documents, photographs and objects.
The memory of the Nazi camps is not just a thing of the past. The obligation to prevent something like this from happening again appeals to each and every one of us and puts us in front of the responsibility to actively oppose racism and fascism, as they appear in new but no less dangerous forms even today. This is the core of the call that Andrea Bellavite addressed at yesterday’s commemoration of those deported to the Nazi extermination camps in front of the Goriška railway station. The municipality was represented by deputy mayor Chiara Gatta, senator Tatjana Rojc and many Slovenian and Italian citizens of Gori were present.
The current Swiss Confederation President, Viola Amherd commemorated the Holocaust Remembrance Day and for once mentioned Roma.
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