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Tribute to our Hero Raymond
Dikh He Na Bister pays tribute to our friend and hero Raymond Gurême, who died in May 2020. He would be celebrating bis 95th birthday in a few days. Raymond was born into a Manouche family of actors and acrobats in France. In Nazi-occupied Europe, his family had been imprisoned in camps, like so many other Romani People under fascism. As a teenager he escaped, then he would break into these camps to feed and care for his loved ones, before boldly escaping again! His sister Henriette wrote a song about his courage. Raymond was a warm mischievous soul, always at the center of the Dikh He Na Bister Commemoration…
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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!
Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative
