Post by Admin on Aug 16, 2013 14:32:21 GMT -6
This forum is dedicated to the education of both Romani and Non-Romani
in the belief it is only through education and understanding change
can occur. It is our great hope for this to be place of not only learning
about The Romani Holocaust: O Baro Porrajmos but of Romani history
and culture. A place to share both sorrow and joy for all things Romani.
“The presentation of this book [The Memorial Book: The Gypsies at Auschwitz-
Birkenau] represents the relationship between the German Sintis and Roms, a
minority, and the majority: it has been left to the minority to document the
history of their persecution and to remind others of it.”
The Memorial Book: The Gypsies at Auschwitz-Birkenau
K.G. Saur, 1993, p. XVII
That is a powerful statement. In other words, it has been left up to us,
the victims and their descendants, to remind the world of what
happened, otherwise the world would go on, without memory, of a people
that has come to be known as ‘a footnote in history’. I have come across
few people who truly know who the Romani are, and fewer still who are
aware that the Romani and Sinti were systematically destroyed by the
SS, Hitler’s elite hit men.
This forum is dedicated to the education of both Romani and Non-Romani
in the belief it is only through education and understanding change
can occur. It is our great hope for this to be place of not only learning
about The Romani Holocaust: O Baro Porrajmos but of Romani history
and culture. A place to share both sorrow and joy for all things Romani.
~Ciuin Ferrin educational director of the O Porrajmos Education Society.
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