Tag Archives: Holocaust

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Lety again …

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Lety again …

Czech activists have asked the EU to stop subsidies to the pig farm that is located on the site of the former concentration camp for Rroma of Lety, in the Czech Republic. The closure of that farm has been requested numerous times in the last 20 years.

Let’s make it happen!

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Czech Republic: Holocaust Survivors Disagree with Anti-Refugee Sentiment

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Czech Republic: Holocaust Survivors Disagree with Anti-Refugee Sentiment

Czech Holocaust Rroma survivors and relative of the victims disagree with the anti-refugee sentiment that is prevalent in that country.

Read the speech!

Germany News Western Europe

Hessen, Germany: Graves of Rroma

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The Hessen Government in Germany wants to protect the graves of persecuted Rroma and Sinti. This follows a move of several other Laender in Germany who insisted that these graves need to be preserved.

Good, and may they rest in peace at last.

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Exhibition on Rroma Holocaust

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Exhibition on Rroma Holocaust

An exhibition on the Holocaust of Rroma in Bohemia and other Czech lands is opening this week. Good one speaks about it, as the Czech lands were nearly totally cleaned of Rroma in World War Two. And not all by German Nazis, by far not.

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Croatia: Jews and Serbians Boycott Jasenovac Celebrations

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Croatia: Jews and Serbians Boycott Jasenovac Celebrations

Jews and Serbs have boycotted the celebrations of the liberation of the Croatian Concentration camp of Jasenovac on Friday the 22 of April. This is an infamous concentration camp where many Jews and Rroma were exterminated by Croatian Ustasha. Jews and Serbians are protesting against the rehabilitation in Croatia of people associated with this regime and crimes.

Germany News Western Europe

Exhibition on Concentration Camps

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Exhibition on Concentration Camps

A new permanent exhibition near Buchenwald has opened. A must see. Let’s not forget.

Croatia News Eastern Europe

Jasenovac

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Jasenovac

The celebration of the commemoration of the evasion of more than 600 inmates of the notorious Croatian Deacth Camps Jacenovac were boycotted by Jewish organizations. Jews and Rroma were murdered in this camp by local Croatian Ustasha during World War Two. In Croatia, only ca. 20 (really!) Families survived the War.

The reason for the Boycott: The tendency to re-habilitate several Croatian key figures who contributed to these crimes.

News Western Europe

Stolpersteine

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Stolpersteine

An article about these little stones that commemorate victims of the Holocaust in several countries (there are by now 48’000 of these). The sculptor Gunter Demnig had the idea on the 50th anniversary of Himmler’s edict on the deportation of Roma and Sinti. Strangely enough, Minich still bans these stones …

Germany News Western Europe

Remembering!

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Remembering!

The city of Marburg in Germany remembered deported Sinti. The city’s mayor also expressed regrets at the current discrimination levels against Sinti and Rroma in Germany.

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