Pictures of a memorial for a young Rom who was stabbed to death in Brno.
In this issue, Romano Dikipe accompanies the Roma-Service association during their move to the new House of Ethnic Groups in Oberwart; report on the new book by Herbert Brettl; as well as on the planned location for the central memorial for Roma and Sinti in Vienna; attended the event “Literature on the Ring” and is once again in search of traces of vanished Roma settlements in Burgenland.
Eighty years after the deaths of more than 16,000 Roma in the Uštica camp, part of the Jasenovac Ustasha camp, some places of death – such as the one near Jezerin where 38 Roma were killed in 1944 – still have neither a grave nor a memorial, it was pointed out on Tuesday at a forum at the Kali Sara Roma Association.
An article in the Slovak press about the forthcoming memorial of the Roma and Sinti victims of the Nazi genocide to be erected in Vienna.
After a very long time, Vienna will erect a memorial to the Roma and Sinti victim of the Holocaust in the Weghuberpark in Vienna-Neubau, built in front of the Ministry of Justice.
Half a million Romani and Sinti people were persecuted and murdered in Europe by the Nazi regime. Many thousands of them came from Austria. However, there is still no nationwide memorial in Austria for the victims of the genocide. Now it seems within reach, but the location is still under discussion.
A memorial to the murdered Sinti and Roma is to be erected in the city center. The plans are now taking concrete form: Six selected international artists will participate in a competition. The design of the memorial should be finalized in September.
The new memorial for the Sinti victim of the Nazi genocide was inaugurated in Hamburg.
The Hamburg Sinti Association has erected a memorial in the cemetery at Diebsteich in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. It will be ceremoniously inaugurated on Sunday.
The ten years old Holocaust Memorial for Sinti and Roma in Berlin is threatened by the construction of a new subway right underneath it. Associations of Sinti and Roma see the function of the memorial where fresh flowers are always placed on the stele, and where there is a violin sound threatened by planned construction work for a new S-Bahn line. The chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, has indicated that he is willing to discuss a modified draft.
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Holocaust memorial of Sinti and Roma in Berlin. The German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier will hold a speech there at 11 AM.
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