An initiative by the government of Hessen aims at teaching children about Sinti and Rroma in Germany, and the overall role of discrimination and the need to fight against segregation.
Good!
A series of articles was published in Italy in the context of the remembrance day of the Holocaust on the 27th of January, explaining that Rroma were also singled out by the Nazis during World War Two. This is not well known in Italy, so GOOD!
Some pictures about Rroma during World War Two, pictures taken by German soldiers.
Several Articles on the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Ban Ki Moon, the UN General Secretary sent a message on the Holocaust Remembrance day. In there, he cites the Rroma as victims of the Holocaust and pleads against discrimination and racism.
Today’s the Holocaust Remembrance Day!
January 27th is the Holocaust Remembrance day. Germany is now chairing the OSCE and has put the advancements of the Rroma cause at the centre of their activities.
An exhibition on the Rroma Holocaust is currently to be seen in Durham. Good – except for the use of the word “Porrajmos” that actually is not used and means something else.
A commemoration of a judgement by Germany highest court 60 years ago. On January 7th, 1956, Germany highest court ruled that Rroma and Sint were not persecuted on racial grounds by Nazi Germany and thus were not entitled to reparations.
SHAMEFUL DAY!
This is new and really welcome! A Jewish view that Jews and Rroma (including of course Sinti) were singled out and are somehow therefore related. This is definitively new and good, as not so long ago, this was definitively not so.
Not so good is that the interpretation of Gadžo is not quite to the point, and that the historical view is very much Western European and not European …
Berlin Marzahn, is planning to commemorate the creation, 80 ago in 2016 of the internment camp for Rroma and Sinti. This is where the Rroma Holocaust started.
May they be remembered!
It did not stop with the War… The review of a book on the fate of Rroma and Sinti in Germany after 1945. Many of the persecutions did indeed continue well into the 21st century.
The tale of a research on a Rroma Boxer in Germany and its impact on today’s Rroma.
Well Done!
Interesting analysis of racism against Rroma and the collective guilt assigned to them, even coming from the Pope.
So called “Stolpersteine” (Stumbling blocks) are being set in the pavements of cities to remember the victims of the Holocaust. In the meantime, 53’000 such stones have been set in 18 European countries, some of which for Rroma.
A book on a Hospital in Vienna where children of “inferior” ethnic origins were murdered, with many Rroma among them.
Further articles on the defamation of the Rroma Holocaust Memeorial in Berlin.
SHAME!
A conference on the persecution of Rroam and Sinti in World War Two but also before.
An article on the French concentration camp of Rivesaltes. A camp that is often forgotten but was an important one in the South of France.
The camp in St. Pantaleon in Weyer used to house Rroma during World War Two. On the 18th, there will be a remembrance for the Rroma victims there. It is chilling to read the story of this camp and the fact that many new what was going on there …
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