In their official statement on the Rroma Holocaust, the EU commission expressed its commitment at improving the situation of Rroma.
We’ll see …
A few articles and pictures on the Auschwitz commemoration ceremony on Tuesday.
Pictures from the Council of Europe and their commemoration of the Rroma Holocaust.
Survivors and community leaders commemorated yesterday in Auschwitz the Rroma Holocaust.
An article by Katalin Barsony, a Hungarian Rromni and the director od the Romedia foundation on the Holocaust remembrance day and on the increasing hate towards Rroma in Europe. She is right on this, unfortunately.
We just wish that the term Porrajmos not be used…
Today’s the day to remember the Rroma victims of the Holocaust. May they rest in peace.
The Maribor Synagogue in Slovenia will commemorate the Rroma Holocaust on August 2.
The Pope visited Auschwitz, met survivors, all in silence, may the souls that departed appreciate.
But the article states some incorrect facts. The mention 1.5 mio dead. This is correct. But then say 23’000 Rroma. Also correct if you “only” count those who were registered. To give a comparison, there are 300’000 registered Jews in Auschwitz. Far from the 1.5 Mio. Simply said, registered people where the ones who were not immediately gassed. Those who died on arrival are not recorded in the camp, just in the transport. So fact is: many more Rroma died in Auschwitz than the 23’000. May their souls rest in peace.
An effort is under way in Canada to have the Rroma Holocaust formally recognised. This is supported by the local Jewish organisations.
August 2nd will see the first commemoration of the Rroma Holocaust.
A reminder that there was a Rroma holocaust. Unfortunately, the term used here is a total no-go: Porrajmos. It is first not understood by all non Vlach, and second, among Vlach, it refers more to a rape than anything else. Bad choice of words for a very real Holocaust. Let’s stick to Holocaust.
An interesting article explaining Eleie Wiesel’s views on Poland (a “Jewish Graveyard”) and on why Auschwitz was so much uniquely Jewish for him.
Even if one disagrees with him on this latter point, as the Holocaust is also a Rroma tragedy, he was and remains one of the voices of our conscience. May he rest in peace.
A new documentary on Hitler’s Olympics and on the fact that prior to them, in early July, all Sinti from Berlin were deported the a camp in Marzahn, a prelude to what would happen next…
Elie Wiesel, who just died, urged his native Romania to confront its past and acknowledge the deportation of Jews and Rroma from Romania. What this article misses, ist that most Rroma were not deported to camps but displaced to Transnistria n the North East where an unknown number died of hunger and illnesses.
An article about life inside one of these Rroma camps in Italy. One thing is somewhat missed here: Rroma are still being kept in those camps by an alliance between the State administration, the police and NGOs who are all present there. And the latest arrests in Rome have shown that the mafia hugely profited from these camps too. The comparison to Auschwitz is very much not the right one here.
Very shortly before the Berlin Olympics in 1936, on July 16th, 1936, the first Sinti from Berlin were arrested by the police and led to the Berlin Marzahn camp. An exhibition now remembers these victims on the very spot where they were first interned.
Rroma were interned between 1942 and 1944 in the French camp of Saliers, before being deported further. A remembrance ceremony was held a while back for the Rroma victims.
Germany is investigating pictures taken by Neo Nazis inside Buchenwald.
SHAME
Pressure against the Croatian Minister of Culture, Zlatko Hasanbegovic, is increasing. Several international personalities are calling for his resignation, following his statements on Holocaust and his open revisionism concerning the Ustasha in World War Two.
WRITE to the Croatian Embassy in your Country!
An article from the US on a translation of the book on Johann Trollmann, the Sinto boxer who ended up in a concentration camp.
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