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Italy and Genocide

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Italy and Genocide

A Seminar to remember the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti will be held on November 22 in Agnone on and aims to shed light on a dark chapter in European history, too often forgotten: the Genocide of the Roma and Sinti. Agnone is the town where from 1941 to 1943 Roma and Sinti were interned in the San Bernardino concentration camp

The program of the seminar includes a series of events ranging from visits to historical sites to conferences held by experts in the field. It will start on November 22 with a visit to the former Convent of San Bernardino, a place of memory that during the Second World War saw the internment of 150 Roma and Sinti. In the afternoon, at the Municipality of Agnone, a conference will be held with the participation of historians, activists and representatives of the Roma and Sinti communities.

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Lety: Building of the Year

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Lety: Building of the Year

The newly opened Roma and Sinti Holocaust Memorial in Bohemia became one of the significant buildings of 2024. He received the Prize of the Chairman of the Senate of the Czech Republic for extraordinary societal contribution. The memorial, ceremonially opened in May of this year, was created on the site of a former concentration camp where Czech Roma and Sinti were imprisoned during the Nazi occupation.

Architects Jan Sulzer and studio Terra Florida signed the architectural design of the area. An interesting element of the space is the forest symbolizing the Roma community and the empty spaces commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. The memorial circle then marks the original site of the camp.

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Lety Memorial

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Lety Memorial

The Museum of Roma Culture received a prestigious award in the Building of the Year 2024 competition for the newly opened Roma and Sinti Holocaust Memorial in Bohemia, located in Lety u Písek. The monument received the Award of the Chairman of the Senate of the Czech Republic for an extraordinary social contribution. The award is recognition for an important step in the commemoration of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust and an effort to bring the historical events associated with the Nazi genocide of the Roma and Sinti in our country closer to the general public.

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Łodź: Lecture

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Łodź: Lecture

The Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź invites you on Saturday, November 30 at 5:00 PM to the City Museum of Łódź for a lecture by Dr. Monika Weychert entitled “Even Death Fears Auschwitz. Commemorations and Holocaust Art Created by People with Roma Roots”. The event accompanies the first solo exhibition in Poland by the Roma artist and writer Ceija Stojka, “Ceija Stojka (1933-2013): “I Cannot Forget””.

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80 Years Ago

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80 Years Ago

80 years ago, the Nazis massacred 24 Roma in the settlement near Žiari nad Hronom. They herded people into houses and set them on fire.

Of all the men, women and children, only a 14-year-old girl was saved from death by fire. She managed to jump out of the window of the burning house and hide. After a few days, the locals took her to the hospital, but they were detained by a military patrol and the girl was shot on the spot, ethnologist Arne Mann describes the event.

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Slovakia and the Persecution of Roma

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Slovakia and the Persecution of Roma

An article about a book on the persecution and deportation of Roma during World War Two in Slovakia. It unfortunately centres on “nomadism” and puts a caravan as an image. That there had never been nomadic Roma in Slovakia is not mentioned.

So, with good ntentions, this cements stereotypes.

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Gdansk: Concert and Commemoration

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Gdansk: Concert and Commemoration

A unique event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Sinti and Roma Genocide during the Holocaust will take place in the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk on October 19, 2024, at 6:00 p.m.

There will be a concert and a photography exhibition.

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Łodz: Exhibition and Discussion

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Łodz: Exhibition and Discussion

Dr. Joanna Talewicz (Strone of Dialogue Foundation) presente the works of Ceja Stojka both her painting and literature, which are a moving testimony to the Roma Holocaust, and the historical context of the Holocaust itself, and presented the processes related to the decades of marginalization and ignoring of the voices of Roma people, and how they are increasingly regaining their rightful place in collective memory.

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Roma Memory Camp

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Roma Memory Camp

The International Roma Memory Camp will be held in Tarnów for the 25th time. The event is planned for the upcoming weekend, from 4 to 6 October. This year’s edition will bring together scientists from various centers. The program features a block of three presentations, referring to the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the so-called The Gypsy Family Camp, which the Germans created on the grounds of the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) camp in the spring of 1943, and which they liquidated on the night of August 2/3, 1944, murdering the last nearly 3,000 Roma in gas chambers.

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Berlin Memorial

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Berlin Memorial

The Berlin Memorial of the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialsim is being threatened by work for a new subway line. It could potentially be closed for quite a while.

On Saturday evening, more than 100 demonstrators gathered on Potsdamer Platz to protest against planned construction work for the new S-Bahn line 21 that will not just force the extended closure of this memorial to victims of Nazi genocide, but will also cause a permanent impact due to the felling of nearby trees and other long-term changes to the surroundings.

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Babyn Yar

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Babyn Yar

On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi commemorated the 83rd anniversary of the massacre of more than 30,000 Jews by the Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators in the Babyn Jar gorge near Kyiv in 1941.

“Babyn Jar is a terrifying symbol that shows that the most heinous crimes occur when the world chooses to ignore, remain silent, be indifferent and lacks the determination to stand up to evil,” Zelensky, who is of Jewish descent himself, said on the X social network.

According to official data, 100,000 – 150,000 people were killed in the Babyn Jar gorge in 1941 and 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. The primany targets were Jews and Roma.

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Poland: Memorial

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Poland: Memorial

A memorial to Roma killed in 1944 was dedicated recently in Dębina Gorzędowska to commemorate the tragic events of 1944, when approximately 60 Roma were killed by German gendarmes. Among those gathered were not only witnesses to history, but also their descendants.

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Poland: Memorial

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Poland: Memorial

The ceremony of consecration of the monument to the Roma people murdered in 1944 in Dębina Gorzędowska. The place of the tragedy was a small forest grove near the villages of Kocierzowy, Wąglin and Gertrudów. Here, in July 1944, about 60 Roma lost their lives. Women, children and men were shot by German gendarmes. A dozen or so people survived from the camp in Dębina Gorzędowska, mainly children, who were outside the camp at the time of the massacre. As a result of the exhumations, the remains were laid to rest in the Roman Catholic parish cemetery in Konstantynów Łódzki. On September 24, the monument was consecrated by Father Dean Leszek Kaźmierczak.

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80 Years Commemoration

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80 Years Commemoration

The director of Poland’s Auschwitz Museum has said it is “hard to imagine” the presence of a Russian delegation at next year’s commemoration marking 80 years since the death camp was liberated by the Red Army. Yes, indeed, especially in view of the ethnic cleansing some of the Russian troops have been doing against Roma in occupied Ukrainians regions.

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Slovenia, Partisans, and Excecutions

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Slovenia, Partisans, and Excecutions

Communist partisans murdered 3’450 in the cave under Macesnova gorica in early 1945. These were Slovenians prisonners of war and Roma. Some of theme still do not have a burial place. The mayor of Ljubljana refused recently that the Roma killed in this massacre be buried in the city’s cemetery.

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Babyn Yar

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Babyn Yar

An exhibition follows the path taken by Kyiv Jews on their last journey on September 29, 1941. At every step, you can look into numerous mirrors. They reflect the fates of victims of the Holodomor and Mariupol, deported Crimean Tatars and executed Roma, prisoners of the GULAG, Syrts and Yagidny, prisoners of war killed in Katyn, Darnytsia and Olenivka.

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Reflections on Lety

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Reflections on Lety

Some reflections on the memorial of the former concentration camp of Lety, in Czechia with a question: Will the trees that have been planted there become tall before racism against Roma disappears?

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Ukraine and August 2nd

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Ukraine and August 2nd

Ukraine commemorated August 2nd with a ceremony on the site of Babyn Yar where, besides the many jews, Roma were also executed.

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Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma

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Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma

The official statement of the Central Council of the German Sinti and Roma on August 2nd.

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