An article that describes the fate of some of the Slovenian Roma during World War Two. What is interesting here is the census data from prior to the war.
Not much in France this week: An article on the commemoration of August 2nd in the Rivesaltes camp in France. Roma were imprisoned in this camp during World War Two. And finally, the arrestation of three young French who were planning to kidnap and kill two Roma.
Some statements and articles from Western Europe.
A few articles in the Czech press for the 80th anniversary of the destruction of the Roma camp in Auschwitz Birkenau.
Quite a few articles in the Polish press for the 80th anniversary of the destruction of the Roma camp in Auschwitz Birkenau. Focus on the very high level German delegation.
Quite a few articles in the Slovak press for the 80th anniversary of the destruction of the Roma camp in Auschwitz Birkenau.
Some of the prominent speakers at the August 2nd commemoration in Auschwitz 1.
An article in the Times of Israel on the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the destruction of the Roma camp in Auschwitz
On August 1st, 2024, a conference was held in Krakow on the commemoration of th 80th anniversary of the destruction of the Roma camp in Auschwitz.
Full video of the events on August 2nd in Auschwitz.
The full video of the political speakers and public for the August 2nd commemoration of the Genocide of the Roma.
A press communication on the planned commemoration in Auschwitz of the 80th anniversary of the destruction of the Roma camp.
Or how the Nazis tried to cover up their atrocities.
The district court in Hanau, Hesse, has refused to open a trial against a 99-year-old alleged former guard at the Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp for health reasons.
Too bad.
An excellent article and a reminder of the fact that Switzerland was at the forefront of the eugenics movement that led ultimately to the Holocaust. The article focuses more on Yenische and less on Roma, but these theories were applied also to Roma.
In 1942, eighteen-year-old Romni Bozena Růžičková was sent to the “gypsy” concentration camp in Lety u Písek. She was pregnant but had to face beatings and go to hard work, breaking stones on a road construction site. On October 16, 1942, she gave birth to a baby girl at the “marodka” with the help of an older fellow inmate, whom she named Markéta. He daughter died two months later of typhus.
Eighty years ago, in May 1944, 578 Roma and Sinti were rounded up in a major raid and transported to Camp Westerbork. Of these, 245 were deported by train to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. Only 31 returned alive.
A commemoration was held on Sunday on the site.
On Sunday, May 12, 2024, the memorial to the Roma Holocaust at the site of the concentration camp in Lety u Písek was opened to the public. Three decades of debates about the nature of the place, which used to be a pig farm, were thus concluded.
But the reality of the perpetrators was not acknowledged for a very long time. The participation of Czech gendarmes and camp commanders in the genocide of the Roma during the Second World War was denied throughout the forty years of communism.
The taboo was broken after the revolution by historian Ctibor Nečas and journalist Markus Pape, and courageous activists from the ranks of the Roma and Sinti also played their part. For example, Jan Hauer, Antonín Lagryn and Čeněk Růžička, mostly sons of Lety prisoners, who also told about the fates of their parents and their own for the Memory of the Nation.
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