25/01/2016
FSG International
The European Commission celebrates the commemoration of the “International Holocaust Remembrance Day”. The ceremony will take place at Berlaymont buiding, EC headquarter in Brussels. The event will be open by Dimitris Avramopoulos, Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship and Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality. Besides other representatives of the European institution will participate in the ceremony. In addition of the political representation, representatives of the Jew and Roma communities will be there. Within the event, the exposition “Roma Memory” will be opened.
The exhibition “Roma Memory” on Roma genocide during WWII has been developed by YAHAD - IN UNUM. Founded in 2004 by Father Patrick Desbois, this organization is dedicated to systematically identifying and documenting the sites of mass executions of Jews and Roma by Nazi mobile-killing units in Eastern Europe during World War II.
On the eve of World War II, hundreds of thousands of Roma lived throughout Europe. For a long time, their fate in the East under the Fascist occupation remained unknown. Yet, the Roma were persecuted en masse by the Nazis and their collaborators. For several years, Yahad-in Unum, in partnership with the organization, Roma Dignity, has investigated the villages of Eastern Europe, from the Former Soviet Union to Romania, to interview Roma survivors of the deportation to Transnistria and witnesses who saw the shootings of the Roma led by the Einsatzgruppen and other German units.
