Friday, 18 January 2008

Sinti and Roma.

Interesting, that the holocaust is predominantly remembered in terms of the Jewish population. People remember that other races were persecuted, but none so much as the jewish race. Why is this? Because they were the largest population slaughtered, and because the campaign against them was ran so efficiently? Because the Jewish people have a national identity that can act as a memorial to their suffering, possibly. Gypsies don't have a place; they don't have a written history. I've looked on the internet; I can't even find a site that tells me why gypsies are nomadic. Yes, they've got a place to come from, but now they're disparate in the eye of the media; so they don't get a proper memorial. Memorials need places, not just times.

Disabled people, prostitutes, homosexuals, prisoners of war... all of these factions have also been forgotten, to some extent. We only remember the jewish holocaust; not the holocaust of these others. Why?

3 comments:

Valery Novoselsky said...

Roma (Gypsy) people were the same kind of victims of a Nazi genocidal policy as Jewish people.

Around 1 500 000 of Roma were exterminated by the Nazis and their allies during the WW2 in Europe (1939-1945).

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Valery Novoselsky said...

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This announcement group is aimed to strengthen the cultural and political ties between Roma ( Gypsy ) people and their historical Motherland - India ( Baro Than ).

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Valery Novoselsky said...

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