From India to Auschwitz – Remembering the Roma and Sinti lost in the Holocaust

Panelists: Prof. Dr. Hristo Kyuchukov, linguist and educator, specialist on Romani language and education of Roma, he is Professor of Intercultural Education and Psycholinguistics, University of Silesia; Ms Karolina Mirga Danek, Roma activist working on the issues of Roma youth, Roma women and empowerment and one of the founders of Ternype International Roma Youth Network and Dikh He Na Bister (Look and Don’t Forget) – Roma Genocide Initiative and of the Ride of Happiness organisation

 

Moderator: Dr. Punita Singh, communication scientist, musicologist and Educator based in Delhi. She has worked with the Romani community for several decades and currently serves as a Vice President of International Romani Union

 

India is considered to be the original home of the Roma and Sinti. Multiple reasons, routes and timelines have been proposed for their migration and their retention of Indian linguistic and cultural traits. Their long journey out of India did not always lead to hospitable new lands. Some roads led to Auschwitz-Birkenau where on 2nd August 1944, several thousand Roma and Sinti perished in the ‘liquidation’ of the ‘Zigeunerfamilienlager’ (Gypsy family camp). It is estimated that over half a million Roma and Sinti were lost in the mass murder (Samudaripen) and brutal devouring (Porrajmos) organised by the Nazi regime and their World War II allies

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