Today marks the commemoration of the deportation of Sinti from Munich.
Around 100 Sinti and Roma from Hanover were deported to Auschwitz in March 1943. At a wreath-laying ceremony at the Ahlem memorial, the city and region recalled the injustice of the Nazi era – and called for the fight against prejudice.
Worthy reading!
The story of a young Romni from Ingolstadt, as told by her daughter.
This should be mandatory in all countries.
Saarbrücken granted a credit for building a memorial to the murdered Roma and Sinti.
Following the disgusting statement of Jimmy Carr on the Holocaust, news laws could in the future curb these kind of statements an make Netflix liable.
The chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, emphasized the importance of trials of Nazi crimes. “It’s about establishing guilt, not about revenge or about bringing an old man to prison,” said Rose on Friday before the start of the 22nd day of the trial in the trial of a suspected former concentration camp guard in Brandenburg/Havel. “But our society must distance itself from such perpetrators.”
Commemoration of the Holocaust in the UN.
On the commemoration of the Holocaust Remembrance in the Czech Republic, a region which basically eradicated all Roma during World War Two.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
A Remembrance ceremony will be held in Freiburg to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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).
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