The
situation of Romani people in Slovakia during the Second World War was
different – while the same fate was prepared for them as met
the traditional Czech Roma and Sinti, thanks to historical
circumstances it fortunately was not fulfilled in all its horror in
their case. The Slovak Roma, who comprise most of the Romani population
in the Czech Republic today (or rather, their offspring do), live here
with different family memories and personal stories, and thanks to that
fact, as well as the decades of public silence about the Romani
Holocaust, they frequently themsleves know very little about the tragic
fate of the traditional Czech Roma and Sinti.
This makes
outreach on this issue among Romani people living in the Czech Republic
today even more important, for example, through discussions,
information campaigns, or our own
travelling exhibition, “A
Vanished
World”.
You can read more about this in the brief
historical excursion Persecution
of Roma in Slovakia during the Nazi era (.pdf
format).
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President of the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust in the
Czech Republic, Čeněk Růžička (left) with Romani Rose (right), the
representative of the Central Council of German Roma and Sinti,
together at the Lety memorial. |
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