Tag Archives: Genocide

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Fico and the 27th of January

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Fico’s party, Smer-SD commemorated the Holocaust as well as the Genocide and stated: “On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – Auschwitz. It is time for reflection, to remember the memory of millions of innocent lives that were victims of the Nazi regime,” they said, adding that they will never forget the victims of the Holocaust.

Well, in view of Fico’s comments on Roma, there is a touch of doubt about this.

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Auschwitz Commemorations

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Today, on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, about 20 former prisoners of German camps and representatives of the Auschwitz Museum management laid a wreath and candles at the Death Wall in the former Auschwitz I. It was the first part of the celebration of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the camp on January 27.

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Ukraine, the Holocaust, and Roma

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A long article on the Genocide of the Roma in the Ukraine and the parallels to the Jewish Holocaust in the Ukraine with a presentation by a German researcher of work done with and by Ukrainian researchers who, for the most part are currently on the front.

Other articles are on the commemorations of the 27th of January.

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Poland and the Genocide

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A video on the history of the extermination of the Roma from Borzecin and Szczurowa is available on the History Hiking.

The presenters describe two stories related to the Nazi murders of the Roma population. On a Saturday in July 1942, the gendarmes stopped a group of 30 Gypsies near Wał Rudy: three men, five women and the rest – children. In carts driven by local peasants, the Germans took them to the Kisielina River between Wola Radłowska and Wał Ruda. Local people begged the Germans and Polish policemen not to kill Gypsies near the village. The Germans took the victims along the road towards Borzęcin. The execution took place in the forest. Probably one man managed to escape. The murdered belonged to the Majewski, Kwiatkowski, Chmielewski and Cioroni families. The names indicate that they were Gypsies from the Polska Roma tribe and local settlers (Cioronie). The victims of the massacre were exhumed in 1959 and placed in a mass grave at the cemetery in Borzęcin Dolny.

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Germany: Exhibition

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The exhibition “Racial Diagnosis: Gypsies” commemorates the systematic persecution and extermination of Sinti and Roma during the Nazi era. It was opened by the President of the North Rhein Westfalen State Parliament, André Kuper, and the first chairman of the State Association of German Sinti and Roma NRW, Roman Franz.

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Roma, the UN and the Roma Holocaust

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Christian Pfeil (80) from Trier, Germany will speak at the United Nations on Friday, January 26th, on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day. He was born in a concentration camp and many members of his family were murdered in Auschwitz. Christian Pfeil has been committed to coming to terms with history for years. With his speech at the UN he wants to draw attention to the increasing anti-Semitism and the situation of the Sinti and Roma in the Balkan states.

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Germany, the Church and the Nazis

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79 years after the Holocaust and Genocide, the German Catholic Church indicated they want wants to deal with its failure in the Genocide of the Sinti and Roma.

Better late than never …

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Minorities in the Czech Republic

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An article on minorities in the Czech Republic. Thy by now make up 10% of the Czech population. The article highlights the continuing difficulties encountered by Roma, and also stats that the state created a register of Roma as early as 1927 which was then used to deport them to concentration camps. In the Czech lands, almost none survived.

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82 years

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On January 12, 1942, the Germans completed the liquidation of the Roma camp located in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Łódź. The Germans took 5,000 people to Łódź. Mostly Roma from the border of Austria and Hungary. Many of them died in the camp, the rest were murdered in the gas chambers.

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Litzmannstadt: 82 years

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On Tuesday, January 9, Łódź commemorated the 82nd anniversary of the liquidation of the Roma and Sinti camp established in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto.

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Czech Republic and the Holocaust

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The Lety memorial to the victims of the Genocide of the Roma will open with a delay in April of this year.

The reason being delays and issues discovered while building the site.

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Litzmannstadt – Łodz – Ghetto

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In November 1941, in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, Nazis established a sub-camp to which Roma and Sinti were brought from the Burgenland. After several weeks, on January 5, 1942, the deportation of prisoners to the extermination camp in Chełmno nad Nerem began, where several thousand people were brutally murdered.

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Switzerland and the Nazi Period

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The Swiss Federal Council remembers the murdered Roma, Sinti and Yenish people. More than 25,000 German and Austrian Sinti and Roma were murdered by the National Socialists. But the Federal Council also looks to the present, where discrimination still occurs.

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Sobibor

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The Museum and Memorial Site in Sobibór has been nominated for the prestigious title of European Museum of the Year 2024. The competition is organized by the European Museum Forum – an independent, non-governmental organization operating under the auspices of the Council of Europe, whose mission is to promote innovation in museology. The winners will be announced in early May 2024. The European Museum of the Year Award is considered the most important distinction for European museums.

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Bayreuth and Roma

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The newly created memorial for Sinti and Roma at the Protestant city cemetery in Bayreuth was inaugurated. For Bayreuth regional bishop Dorothea Greiner, it is important to come to terms with history.

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Hamburg: Memorial

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The Hamburg Sinti Association has erected a memorial in the cemetery at Diebsteich in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. It will be ceremoniously inaugurated on Sunday.

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Berlin and the Memorial

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The family of the artist Dani Karavan, the creator of the Memorial for the Sinti and Roma victims of the Genocide is threatening legal action if the memorial is changed by the planned S-Bahn tunnel. The government remains divided on the issue.

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