A ceremony was held on the Holocaust Remembrance Day on the site of the first camp for Sinti and Roma in Berlin Marzahn by representatives of Sinti and Roma.
On the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Protestant Church of Reconciliation Dachau commemorates the genocide of the Sinti and Roma, which began 80 years ago in the Kulmhof extermination camp. Church councilor Björn Mensing said that around 5,000 Sinti and Roma from the nearby so-called “Gypsy camp” on the edge of the Lodz ghetto were brutally murdered. The focus of the commemoration is the fate of the Austrian Sinti family Endress.
Zilli Schmidt, one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp, received the Federal Cross of Merit in Mannheim on Friday evening. Mayor Peter Kurz (SPD) paid tribute to the 97-year-old for her political commitment as a member of German Sinti and Roma. Zilli Schmidt was persecuted by the National Socialists as a “Gypsy”. Her parents, her two sisters and her daughter Gretel were murdered in Auschwitz. After the Second World War, Zilli Schmidt built a new life in Mannheim. Under the title “God has planned something for me!” she published her biography two years ago.
An exhibition entitled “Last Seen” opened in Munich.
It shows pictures of people who were deported by the Nazis and later killed, with several of Sinti and Roma.
A memorial for the Sinti and Roma murdered during the National Socialist era is to be erected in Saarbrücken. According to the city, the memorial will be erected at the parish church of St. Michael in St. Johann.
On the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference where the fate of Jews was sealed, the head of memorial ponders about parallels between the past and the present.
The controversy on the Documentation Centre and the memorial of the Hannover Railway station is being solved. The Documentation Centre will have its own building.
The controversy arose as the initial location of the centre was in a building shared with a company who is linked to Nazis.
An article on the deportation of Roma to the Łodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto. In September 1941, the Reich Central Statistical Office decided to deport 5,000 Roma from the Austro-Hungarian border to Poland, where they were imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto (Litzmannstadt Ghetto).
The pianist Miroslav Rác decided to dedicate his music to the victims of the Holocaust. Especially on the Roma one.
Miroslav Rác grew up in a family of musicians and was drawn to music as a child. “I chose the piano. I’ve been living classical music since I was a child,” he explains.
His family had a tragic personal experience. “Many of my parents’ relatives died in concentration camps. My grandfather was even in a few, but fortunately he survived them.” That is why Rác has been intensively concentrating on the Holocaust since studying at the Dezider Kardoš Conservatory in Topoľčany.
A former Czech MP is facing prosecution for having said Lety was not a concentration camp.
Good!
May 16th market the 75th anniversary of the Roma Uprising in Auschwitz.
May the victims rest in peace.
The background to a standard book in Eastern Germany featuring a Romani girl. She existed and died in a concentration camp.
– Ede und Unku – die wahre Geschichte. In: Freie Presse. 17.03.2019. https://www.freiepresse.de/nachrichten/panorama/ede-und-unku-die-wahre-geschichte-artikel10470233 [link-preview url=”https://www.freiepresse.de/nachrichten/panorama/ede-und-unku-die-wahre-geschichte-artikel10470233″]
Events marked the commemoration of the deportation of Sinti from Munich to Auschwitz, 76 years ago.
– Sinti und Roma. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 12.03.2019. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/wissenstipp-sinti-und-roma-1.4364214
– Deportiert in den Tod. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 14.03.2019. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/verfolgung-deportiert-in-den-tod-1.4368187 [link-preview url=”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/wissenstipp-sinti-und-roma-1.4364214 “]
A new memorial for the Roma concentration camp of Dubnice. Roma were executed there in February 1945 following a typhus epidemy in the camp.
– VIDEO: Tragédiu pripomína kríž z nábojníc. In: Pravda. 22.02.2019. https://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/503163-video-tragediu-pripomina-kriz-z-nabojnic/ [link-preview url=”https://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/503163-video-tragediu-pripomina-kriz-z-nabojnic/”]
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/18/stumbling-stones-a-different-vision-of-holocaust-remembrance [link-preview url=”https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/18/stumbling-stones-a-different-vision-of-holocaust-remembrance”]
The Lithuanian Department of National Minorities has proposed the introduction of August 2nd as a national day of remembrance of the Roma Holocaust.
– Департамент нацменьшинств Литвы предлагает включить в памятные даты день геноцида ромов. In: RU.DELFI. 08.02.2019. https://ru.delfi.lt/news/live/departament-nacmenshinstv-litvy-predlagaet-vklyuchit-v-pamyatnye-daty-den-genocida-romov.d?id=80319277 [link-preview url=”https://ru.delfi.lt/news/live/departament-nacmenshinstv-litvy-predlagaet-vklyuchit-v-pamyatnye-daty-den-genocida-romov.d?id=80319277″]
An exhibition on the Roma Holocaust in the UK. Good, as this is not a topic that is often talked about there.
– Hard-hitting exhibition shines light on Nazi persecution of Gypsy and Roma families. In: The Courier. 31.01.2019. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/818599/hard-hitting-exhibition-shines-light-on-nazi-persecution-of-gypsy-and-roma-families/ [link-preview url=”https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/818599/hard-hitting-exhibition-shines-light-on-nazi-persecution-of-gypsy-and-roma-families/”]
Roma activists market the commemoration of the Holocaust yesterday in Pristina.
– Kosovar Roma Mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In: Radio Free Europe. 27.01.2019. https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovar-roma-mark-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/29734258.html [link-preview url=”https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovar-roma-mark-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/29734258.html”]
The Central Council of German Sinti and Roma sharply criticised the AfD party for its views on History and society following their walkout during a Holocaust commemoration.
– Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma kritisiert AfD. In: Deutschland Funk. 26.01.2019. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ausgrenzung-zentralrat-deutscher-sinti-und-roma-kritisiert.1939.de.html?drn:news_id=970585 [link-preview url=”https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ausgrenzung-zentralrat-deutscher-sinti-und-roma-kritisiert.1939.de.html?drn:news_id=970585″]
An interesting article in the Roma context – namely that the Nazis actually wiped out the Roma middle class during the Holocaust. This is new.
– HOW THE NAZIS WIPED OUT THE ROMANI MIDDLE CLASS. In: The Norwich Radical. 25.01.2019. https://thenorwichradical.com/2019/01/25/how-the-nazis-wiped-out-the-romani-middle-class/ [link-preview url=”https://thenorwichradical.com/2019/01/25/how-the-nazis-wiped-out-the-romani-middle-class/”]
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