Arne Mann – Rómsky holokaust v historickej pamäti Rómov

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Abstract: The fates of Roma and Jews during World War II were similar, but after 1948, the Holocaust became a taboo subject for the state, and it was not often discussed even within Roma or Jewish families. An important political act, not only for German Sinti and Roma, was the public statement by German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in 1982 and Federal President Roman Herzog in 1997, who compared the suffering of the Roma to the genocide of the Jews. These statements significantly changed public opinion on the previously taboo subject of the Roma Holocaust: memorials began to be built and commemorative ceremonies held at concentration camps where Roma and Sinti were interned during the war and at sites of mass executions. In Slovakia, the first memorial ceremony for Roma victims took place in 1991. The memorials to the Roma victims murdered during World War II did not mention that they were Roma, so since 2005, the civic association In Minorita has built and revitalized several memorials in Slovakia, published several anthologies, and held commemorative ceremonies, lectures, and exhibitions. By building „places of memory“ and constructing a culture of remembrance of the Holocaust, it seeks to awaken interest in their own history among the Roma themselves.
Keywords: Roma, Holocaust, remembrance, places of memory
DOI: 10.5817/cshr.2025.27.2.3.
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