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Roma History

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Roma History

On Thursday, February 26, 2026, the Society for Geography and Cultures of the World, in cooperation with the Museum of Nature and Environment, will host a lecture at 7 p.m. entitled “Sinti and Roma in Lübeck – From 1933 to the Present Day.” The speakers are the authors of the book of the same name, Elisabeth Eßer and Gerhard Eikenbusch, who will present the results of their joint research on the lives of Lübeck’s Sinti and Roma from the Nazi era to the present day.

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A Book on Genocide

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A Book on Genocide

Denied Memories. Roma and Sinti during the Second World War is the title of the meeting promoted by the Lav Romanò association, scheduled for Wednesday, February 11th at 6:00 PM at the Ubik bookshop in Cosenza.

A commemorative event dedicated to a chapter of history that has long remained marginalized in official history. The Nazi genocide of Roma and Sinti, deported to extermination camps, and the internment they suffered in Italy at the hands of the fascist state, remain rarely reported events.

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Commemorations

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Commemorations

United Nations, EU Parliament, and the Council of Europe commemorated the 27th of January.

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Memorial Space

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Memorial Space

Descendants of survivors of the Genocide of the Roma in the Czech Republic expressed reservations in a joint statement about how memorialisation is handled in Czechia. First and foremose, the use of “Gypy” camp insetad of concentration camp, but they mentioned other issues such as the lack of consultation with the families of survivors and the used and choice of vicual materials.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day 

Today makers the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz which has become the Holocaust Remembrance Day. Jews and Roma were singled out for racial reasons, while many others, Poles, Russian prisoners of war, homosexuals, Jehova witnesses, etc. were also victims of this madness.

A short first sample of the press releases on this day. A very honourable mention for the Canadian Prime minister who also included Sinti and Roma.

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Hamburg and Memorial

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Hamburg and Memorial

For 15 years, the Hamburg Senate has been planning to build a documentation center in Lohsepark in HafenCity to depict the deportation of Jews, Sinti, and Roma during the Nazi era. Because the project is stalled, an open letter has now been published.

It is addressed to First Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) and private sponsor Harm Müller-Spreer. The realization of the documentation center at the former Hanoverian Railway Station is in jeopardy, and the Senate’s credibility is therefore at stake. This is the message from representatives of the Auschwitz Committee in Hamburg.

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Fascists and Nazis

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Fascists and Nazis

Twenty-four hours before the Holocaust Remembrance Day celebrations on January 27, 2026, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and all those persecuted and deported by the Nazi and Fascist regimes, Mayor Roberto Gualtieri lashed out: “I read, and I hope it’s not true, that there’s a fiction that’s supposed to air tomorrow about the roundup of the Jews of Rome, where the fascists aren’t even seen. They’re not there; only the Nazis are.” And then he added: “But as witnesses know, the fascists actively collaborated in Hitler’s criminal decision to completely exterminate all Jews.”

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Talks on the Genocide of the Roma

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Talks on the Genocide of the Roma

Essex University will be hosting an event to explore the Romani experience in the Holocaust to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day. The free event will take place on 29th January from 6-7pm at the Colchester campus of Essex University and will also be available for people to attend online.

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Santo Spinelli in NYC

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Santo Spinelli in NYC

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Concert for the Day of Remembrance / Samudaripen, promoted and organized by the Union of Romani Communities in Italy (UCRI), will be held on February 2 at 8:00 p.m. at Carnegie Hall in New York. The event, organized with the patronage and support of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, UNAR at Palazzo Chigi, and the major European Roma and Sinti organizations—ERGO Network, ERIAC, and IRU—is intended to contribute to the recognition of Samudaripen, the genocide of the Roma people during World War II, alongside the Holocaust, through the universal language of music. The concert features two internationally renowned artists, Gennaro Spinelli, violin soloist, and Santino Spinelli, accordion soloist, accompanied by members of the European Peace Orchestra. This ethno-symphonic project combines revisited classical repertoire and traditional Romani music, along with several original compositions, offering a musical journey of strong symbolic and cultural value.

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Holocaust, Genocide, and AI

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Holocaust, Genocide, and AI

Germany and Holocaust memorial Institutions are warning social media platform about the dangers of AI use in the context of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma and are asking them to stop it.

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Study on Deportations

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Study on Deportations

The European University of Flensburg presented the results of a two-year study on the history of Sinti and Roma in Schleswig-Holstein to the state parliament, thus filling a previously under-researched historical gap. They focused on Deportations of Sinti and Roma in Schleswig-Holstein during the Nazi Era.

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Exhibition

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Exhibition

The exhibition “Murdered, Marginalized, and Stigmatized: Sinti and Roma in Rhineland-Palatinate” will be on display at the Center for Social Responsibility of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau in Mainz starting January 21. Students from the Department of History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz explored the history of Sinti and Roma in Rhineland-Palatinate during the summer semester of 2025. The results of the project, funded by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Science and Health, will be presented for one week, the university announced on Monday.

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Pamphlet and Distortion

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Pamphlet and Distortion

A pamphlet by a Swede on ICE in the USA. One issue lies in his statement that “Between 1935 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically killed an estimated 130,500 Roma and Sinti people and between 1938 and 1945 more than 6 million Jews.”

This is Genocide distortion. There are effectively around 130’000 registered Roma victims. But, many more were simply executed without being registered. The same applies to jews, so here, the author applies two different measures for the same crime.

Bad.

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Roma Resistance

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Roma Resistance

The Historical Institute of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age of Forlì-Cesena, in collaboration with the Municipality of Forlì, is organizing the presentation of the book “Vittoriosi al fin liberi siam. Roma e Sinti nella Resistenza italiana” by Chiara Nencioni, on Tuesday, January 13, in the Sala Randi, Forlì Municipality. Ines Briganti will be present at the event, alongside the author.

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Opera Yes, Documentation Centre No

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Opera Yes, Documentation Centre No

Those arriving in Hamburg by ICE train from the south pass directly by the former “Hanoverian Station,” from whose tracks 8,000 Jews, Sinti, and Roma were deported to Nazi extermination camps in the east starting in 1940. A memorial with desk-like concrete tables lists all the names from the transport lists of that time.

Just a few hundred meters away, directly in line of sight to the deportation site, a new opera house is to be built on Hamburg’s Baakenhöft. It is being sponsored with 340 million euros by Klaus-Michael Kühne, 88 years old. The same man who, to this day, refuses to allow his company’s Nazi past to be publicly investigated. His opera house, his gift to the city, therefore carries a deeply troubling connotation.

Meanwhile, a planned documentation centre on the deprotations is still in planning, without any date of completion.

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Antigypsyism

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Antigypsyism

Antigypsyism is ethnic hatred of Roma throughout centuries. It is a specific form of racism, an ideology based on racial superiority, as a form of dehumanization and institutional racism that perpetuates historical discrimination. This is expressed, among other things, through violence, hate speech, exploitation and stigmatization.

Just as we cannot avoid the interwar samudaripen (the Roma genocide during the Holocaust) and the partisan massacre of Roma, we cannot get rid of antigypsyism. Therefore, our common concern is to create conditions for coexistence and respect for diversity. While respecting the rule of law or legislation that applies to everyone. No exceptions!

The starting point for this article in the context of preserving the historical memory of the genocide of Jews and Roma during World War II was the editorial by Dr. Alija Žerdin in the Saturday supplement of Delo after the tragic event in Novo mesto. He very sensibly pointed out that the Holocaust against the Roma, especially those from Dolenjska in the years 1941–1945, ended eight decades ago. It is still very close and can be more proof of where hatred of those who are different can lead.

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Commemoration

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Commemoration

A memorial event was held in Podpoľanie at the Jewish cemetery in Zvolen on Tuesday, December 9, as part of the Ma bisteren! project dedicated to commemorating the Roma genocide during the Holocaust on the occasion of International Human Rights Day. It commemorates the fate of Roma murdered during World War II.

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