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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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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.…
Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative
