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Youth for Remembrance – Handbook on Youth-Led Remembrance of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust
The publication "Youth for Remembrance - Handbook on Youth-Led Remembrance of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust" provides a detailed approach to youth-led remembrance efforts, with a focus on the Roma and Sinti Holocaust and its relevance in modern society. It allows young people to develop and organize innovative, community-based commemorations that remember the past while addressing ongoing concerns such as antigypsyism and shrinking democratic spaces. The handbook contains examples of grassroots initiatives, tools, and approaches that can be used to encourage high-quality, sustainable activities and amplify the voices of young people.
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Follow-up Initiatives: Second phase of the ‘DIKH HE NA BISTER – Engaging Youth in Remembrance and Action’ project funded by European Youth Foundation
Part of our project, the follow up phase is an important point in making sure that at local level, through our partner organizations and the young people who participated in the DIKH HE NA BISTER 2024 event, local commemorations activities that resonate deeply with them and their communities are organized. TENET, one of our partner organization that has been part of this stage of the project, developed on of this year’s follow up activity: TITLE OF THE INITIATIVE: Agents of Remembrance: Roma Youth Movement This initiative features a diverse series of activities designed to engage and inspire young people to become active participants in the Roma Youth Remembrance Movement. By…
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We are reclaiming the Sunflower as a Symbol for the Life and Resistance of Roma!
We are shaping our own narrative The sunflower is a potent symbol for the Roma. The great Romni Ceija Stojka, a Holocaust Survivor and Activist, considered it the “Flower of the Roma” and it is present all over her paintings and texts. This year, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of 2 August 1944, we have decided to honor Ceijas love for the sunflower and give it a prominent place in Dikh He Na Bister – Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative. E Kamesgi Luludschi – the sunflower, by Ceija Stojka The sunflower is the flower of the Roma.It provides nourishment, it is life.And the women adorn themselves with it.It is…
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Toolkit on Working with Testimonies
The Dikh He Na Bister Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative presents new educational methods in Holocaust education based on testimonies of Holocaust survivors with our "Toolkit of the Dikh He Na Bister Educational Program"
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Roma Youth Advocacy Training 2023
Coming from different European countries to Brussels, young Roma and Sinti activists joined us to raise their voices and advance important issues for Roma and Sinti communities during the EU Roma Week 2023. The training course was the first opportunity for many of the participants to engage in direct discussion with European stakeholders and institutions relevant to Roma youth policies and one highlight of our project was the event “Roma Heroines” organised by Phiren Amenca Network from Hungary with MEP Klára Dobrev of the Democratic Coalition (Hungary). The Roma Youth Advocacy Training, which was part of the EU Roma Week 2023, organised under patronage of the President of the European…
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Roma Civil Society Forum on Ukraine
Today, the Ukrainian Roma people remain one of the most vulnerable groups exposed to discrimination. However, in recent years, Ukraine has made significant progress in its efforts to respect the rights of representatives of the Roma community. This happened also thanks to the strengthen role of the Roma NGOs and the Roma social movement. A crucial factor in this process is work with youth, a significant part of which has been undertaken by the NGO “Youth Agency for the Advocacy of Roma Culture “ARCA”. Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 changed most of the planned activities and significantly reduced the opportunities. Established connections have been broken, number of…
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Commemoration in North Macedonia
Topography of the memory in North Macedonia offers no official landmarks or monuments to the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma and Sinti during World War 2. For that reason the Roma Lawyers Association – RLA Macedonia in Republic of North Macedonia decided to focus on a virtual media campaign in the interest of the goals of the sorbotka with the Documentary and Cultural Center of the German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg. Commemoration was implemented over a period of time from October till December 2021 and had two components: Component 1: Capacity building of young Roma and non Roma about the Genocide and Holocaust of Sinti and Roma…
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Dikh He Na Bister 2022
Dikh He Na Bister is an initiative that this year commemorated 78 years since 2nd August 1944, the day when almost 4300 Roma prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp were exterminated by Nazi Regime. Every year, DHNB gathers young people from all around the world and encourages them to get more educated regarding WWII, civil rights and resistance. This years’ Dikh He Na Bister initiative started on 29th July in Krakow Poland where 150 young Roma and non Roma participants gathered to share stories, learn about history, commemorate the atrocities of the past and get empowered to face the challenges of today. For five days, the participants had the chance to learn…
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Training in Paris and Raymond Gurême Tribute
Dikh He Na Bister meets every year with the facilitators to prepare them in the best way for the workshops in Poland. This year, the meeting was held in Paris, a good opportunity to also pay our tribute to Raymond Gurême’s place of rest. Our friends and partners from La voix des Roms assisted us in creating a very beautifully packed agenda so that the training had, besides daily educational sessions, interesting visits in Paris and surroundings. The first day welcomed the group of facilitators, media team and participants for their first session, allowing them to get to know each other. The former participants managed to share their experiences, they exchanged…
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A look into the future
Dikh He Na Bister meeting in Heidelberg aimed on reflecting on the goals, concepts, programs and roles of particular partners. The aim was to lay out the strategy and also in short-term the organisational plans for how to empowerm the young Roma, further develop the remembrance activities as well as recognition and education about the Roma genocide. Partner organisations involved in the initiative Dikh He Na Bister focused on the designing the future and enabling the young people to take an active role in promoting and implementing our common goals locally, nationally and internationally. During the preparation meeting for commemoration event Dikh he na Bister in Krakow, the group has…
