The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- Bachelet: ‘We need to push back against hatred’. In: News.un. 26.01.2022. https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/01/1110632
Holocaust Remembrance
Tag Archives: Holocaust
Auschwitz Liberation
A Remembrance ceremony will be held in Freiburg to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
- Gegen das Vergessen: Auschwitz-Gedenken in Freiburg. In: SWR. 26.01.2022. https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/suedbaden/gegen-das-vergessen-auschwitz-gedenken-in-freiburg-100.html
Remember
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.
- “Erinnerung ist kein Nullsummenspiel”. In: Tagesspeigel. 27.01.2022. https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/holocaust-gedenken-der-sinti-und-roma-erinnerung-ist-kein-nullsummenspiel/28016170.html
Remembrance
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.
- Holocaust-Gedenktag 2022: Erinnerung an 80 Jahre Völkermord an Sinti und Roma. In: Sonntagsblatt. 25.01.2022. https://www.sonntagsblatt.de/holocaust-gedenktag-sinti-roma
Zilli Schmidt
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.
- Bundesverdienstkreuz für Zilli Schmidt. In: SWR Aktuell. 22.01.2022. https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/mannheim/bundesverdientskreuz-zilli-schmidt-100.html
Munich – Exhibition
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.
- München · Bilder der NS-Deportation. In: Wochenanzeiger. 21.01.2022. https://www.wochenanzeiger.de/article/242340.html
Memorial
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.
- Saarbrücken plant Mahnmal für Sinti und Roma. In: SR. 20.01.2022. https://www.sr.de/sr/home/nachrichten/panorama/saarbruecken_mahnmal_fuer_sinti_und_roma_geplant_100.html
80 Years
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.
- 80 Jahre Wannsee-Konferenz: Erinnern hört nie auf. In: Deutsche Welle. 20.01.2022. https://www.dw.com/de/80-jahre-wannsee-konferenz-deborah-hartmann/a-60474727
Hamburg and Holocaust
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.
- Streit um das Denkmal Hannoverscher Bahnhof ist beigelegt. In: NDR. 17.01.2022. https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/hamburg_journal/Streit-um-das-Denkmal-Hannoverscher-Bahnhof-ist-beigelegt,hamj118034.html
- Nach Protest: NS-Gedenkstätte in Hamburg wird verlegt. Hamburger Abendblatt. 17.01.2022. https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article234338085/hamburg-hafencity-ns-dokuzentrum-hannoverscher-bahnhof-wird-verlegt-denk-mal.html
- Ärger um Nachbarn: Hamburger Gedenkstätte für NS-Opfer wird verlegt. In: Hamburger Morgenpost. 17.01.2022. https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/aerger-um-nachbarn-hamburger-ns-gedenkstaette-wird-verlegt/
Litzmannstadt Ghetto
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).
- Tajemnica Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Eksterminacja Cyganów z łódzkiego getta. In: Do rzecy. 12.01.2022. https://dorzeczy.pl/historia/250291/tajemnica-litzmannstadt-ghetto-eksterminacja-cyganow-z-getta.html
Moroslav Rác
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.
- Klavirista pripomína rómsky holocaust. In: Pravda. 08.01.2022. https://kultura.pravda.sk/hudba/clanok/612595-klavirista-pripomina-romsky-holokaust/
Denial
A former Czech MP is facing prosecution for having said Lety was not a concentration camp.
Good!
- Former Czech MP faces prosecution for his remarks about a “pseudo-concentration camp” for Romani people at Lety. In: Romea. 08.01.2022. http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/former-czech-mp-faces-prosecution-for-his-remarks-about-a-pseudo-concentration-camp-for-romani-people-at-lety?fbclid=IwAR1YJzVEvUw7ERa5iZa-NSk9RD8SQi7Itekhgex7Ml2GLP47D6-qLKcXvT8
75 Years Ago
May 16th market the 75th anniversary of the Roma Uprising in Auschwitz.
May the victims rest in peace.
- ‘They didn’t stand a chance, but it shows great heroism’: The Roma gypsies who defied SS beasts in Auschwitz revolt 75 years ago. In: The First News. 16.05.2019. https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/they-didnt-stand-a-chance-but-it-shows-great-heroism-the-roma-gypsies-who-defied-ss-beasts-in-auschwitz-revolt-75-years-ago-5929
- Romani Resistance Day Is About More Than Memory, In: Foreign Policy in Focus. 16.05.2019.https://fpif.org/romani-resistance-day-is-about-more-than-memory/
- Vergeblicher Widerstand von Sinti und Roma in Auschwitz. In: Domradio. 16.05.2019. https://www.domradio.de/themen/kirche-und-politik/2019-05-16/vergeblicher-widerstand-von-sinti-und-roma-auschwitz
Ede and Unku
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″]
Munich and Holocaust
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 “]
Remembering
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
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Lithuania and Holocaust
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″]
Exhibition
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/”]
Kosovo and Holocaust
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”]
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