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Change is Coming! Roma Youth Voices
On October 12 at the High-Level Digital Conference of the German EU Presidency and the European Commission for the new EU Roma Strategic Framework for Equality, Inclusion and Participation until 2030 we made sure with our video that the demands of #RomaYouth are heard! The story: On International Roma Day – 8 April 2030 – Europe celebrates the success of the EU Strategy for Roma Equality. Back in the year 2020, a generation of young Roma faces a world in crisis but takes the lead for radical change. Change is coming, no matter if you like it or not! #RomaYouthVoices #RomaniResistance #EU4Roma #NaBister #EURoma2030 A video directed and edited by…
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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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#RomaRemember Campaign 2020
Joint statement on the occasion of 2 August 2020 – International Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma #RomaRemember: Joint International Campaign for Roma and Sinti Holocaust Remembrance 2020 On 2 August 1944, over 4,300 Sinti and Roma were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau. They were taken during the night from their barracks to the gas chamber by SS guards, who only months earlier had been driven back by the fierce resistance of the Romani prisoners fighting with nothing but picks and shovels. Every year on this tragic day, Sinti and Roma around the world come together to commemorate the more than 500,000 Romani people who were murdered in camps, fields, and…
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Obituary for Peter Höllenreiner
On 28 July 2020, Peter Höllenreiner, who had been closely connected with the work of the Dikh He Na Bister, the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and the Documentation Centre for many years, passed away. Peter was born in 1939 in Munich and was only 4 years old when he was deported to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was very committed to share his story with Dikh He Na Bister and many young people, and he was committed to fight against racism in Europe today!
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Dikh He Na Bister 2020
Online Action Day for the recognition and remembrance of the Roma Holocaust Memorial Day This year would have been the 10th anniversary of Dikh He Na Bister. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was not possible to bring together hundreds of minority and majority youth from all over Europe, as in previous years, to jointly strengthen remembrance, recognition and education about the genocide of Sinti and Roma on the occasion of the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma. Only a small delegation of 10 people took part in the commemoration ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial on 2 August on behalf of the young people. Therefore we startet…
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Virtual commemoration 2020
Due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, it is unfortunately not possible to hold a similar commemoration event as in previous years. The organisers therefore had to make the difficult decision that only a small wreath-laying ceremony with limited participation can take place at the Memorial in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Instead the main commemoration will take place online. This website will host the official virtual commemoration ceremony for the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma on 2 August 2020, as well as to make local commemorations across Europe visible.
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Obituary for Raymond Gurême
Our hero Raymond Gurême passed away on Sunday, 24 May 2020, at the age of 94. We will continue our fight for justice in his spirit.
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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.
Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative
