We Learn!
Dikh! - We Learn!
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A training on the digital culture of remembrance and Holocaust education
Online training course with a series of 10 webinars focusing on digital tools in education and remembrance of the genocide of Sinti and Roma.
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Dikh He Na Bister 2021
On August 25 2021 Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma organized the commemoration to remember the Roma victims during the Holocaust in the framework of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Auschwitz Birkenau.
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Commemoration At The Memorial Of The Argelèrs-Sur-Mer Camp
On February 5, 2022 a Spanish organisation FAGiC organized the commemoration to remember the Roma victims during the Holocaust in the framework of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Argelès-sur-Mer.
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Commemoration and historical tour in Staro Sajmište
Historical tour and mapping workshop in Staro Sajmište and the Holocaust against Roma in Serbia.
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Call for Participants „Jasenovac and the Roma Holocaust in the Western Balkan“
Training for Trainers on Holocaust and Human Rights Education We invite experienced Sinti and Roma and non-Roma trainers, educators, youth activists to participate in a five-day training about education and remembrance of the genocide of Sinti and Roma during World War II in order understand and challenge the mechanisms of exclusion, of racism, antisemitism and antigypsyism today. We are creating opportunities for participants to learn about the Roma genocide at the historical site of Jasenovac and deepen their understanding and reflection on the genocide and its impact for today from the perspective of human rights as a system of moral beliefs and behavior. We will discuss the roles, responsibilities and…
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Dikh He Na Bister Online – Call for Participants
We invite Roma and non-Roma youth trainers, educators, and activists to participate in an online training course with a series of 10 webinars focusing on digital tools in education and remembrance of the genocide of Sinti and Roma.
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Educational resources
The Roma and Sinti Holocaust is still underrepresented in schools and other educational contexts. But since the beginning of the civil rights struggle for recognition of the Holocaust of Sinti and Roma activists and later academics are changing the status quo. If you want to educate yourself or learn how to talk with your youth group about the Holocaust of Sinti and Roma, here are a few places we recommend to start. roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu This website is a great place learn more about the 2020 virtual commemoration ceremony of the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma. Listen to statements made by survivors, activists, politicians and state representatives. Learn more…
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Education for Remembrance
Education for remembrance of the Roma Genocide: Scholarship, commemoration and the role of youth, edited edited by Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Esteban Acuña C. and Piotr Trojański; Libron (2015) The book “Education for Remembrance of the Roma Genocide: Scholarship, Commemoration and the Role of Youth” is a result of this expert conference during the “Dik i na Bister” Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative 2014 around the 70th anniversary of 2 August. However, rather than a report from the conference, this volume – conceived as interdisciplinary, cross-institutional and inter-generational – aims at reflecting on current developments regarding the Roma Holocaust remembrance and provides basis for further discussion. The heterogeneity of voices included in this…
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Virtual Exhibition Tour in Block 13
In 2001, an exhibition on the history of the Holocaust against the Sinti and Roma was opened on the grounds of the Auschwitz main camp, which have since been converted into a museum. Since 2010 every year the participants of Dikh He Na Bister visit to learn and remember. The exhibition is divided into two rooms. At the beginning of the exhibition, the visitor symbolically leaves the historical site of the memorial and enters the core room of the exhibition. Here the life of Sinti and Roma before the persecution by the Nazi-Regime is shown. Sinti and Roma were integrated into social life before 1933 as neighbors or work colleagues.…
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International Conference 2019
The international conference, entitled 'Is ‘Auschwitz only Sleeping?’ Sinti and Roma Narratives after the Holocaust,” did take place on 31 July and 1 August 2019 in Krakow. The conference brought together major stakeholders, artists, advocates, and academics to discuss the representation of Roma memory at the intersection of arts, culture, scholarship, political activism, and the Roma historical narratives and spaces of memory, as well as the civil rights struggle for recognition and against antigypsyism.
