The exhibition “The Roma Genocide through the eyes of young people” within the project “My right to remember – Commemoration of the Roma Genocide” organized by RROMA in cooperation with the Regional Office for Youth Cooperation (RYCO) as part of the Youth Cultural Fund of the Western Balkans, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany and the ERGO network, Belgium.
The exhibition colony was realized in the eastern and northeastern part of northern Macedonia:
1. Berovo – 7 – 10 October 2024
2. Delchevo – 14 – 18 October 2024
3. Kochani – 21 – 25 October 2024
4. Kriva Palanka – 28 October – 01 November, 2024
5. Kratovo – 04 – 08 – November 2024
The genocide of an estimated 500,000 Sinti and Roma during National Socialism is still considered the “forgotten Holocaust”. The exhibition focuses on the persecution of the Sinti and Roma, from their exclusion and disenfranchisement in the German Reich to the systematic extermination in Nazi Europe. The dehumanizing perspectives of the perpetrators are contrasted with the testimonies of the victims, and old photographs and archived data offer insight into the reality of their lives.
The exhibition is divided into three parts: The first chapter explores the origins of the persecution of the Roma, “An Introduction to Genocide before the Second World War”, the second chapter covers “The Genocide of the Roma – Nazi atrocities during the Second World War“, and the third chapter deals with “The post-war history and contemporary challenges of the Roma genocide”. Through these sections, the exhibition reveals the destroyed lives behind the bureaucratic documents that record the organized destruction. Finally, you will gain information about the human rights situation of the Sinti and Roma minorities in Europe after 1989.
Organisers and collaborators for the exhibition are:
Project management: RROMA
Conception of the exhibition: Urmeta Arifovska, Edis Eminoski, Emilia Panovska
Proofreading of the exhibition: Translation corner – Borche Dimovski
Graphics, media, image processing: Dimittrij Mihajlovski
Video made: Sefadin Selimovski
Information and images taken from:
Documentary and cultural center of the German Sinti and Roma” – www.sintiundroma.de
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Archive – https://www.auschwitz.org
Council of Europe – https://www.coe.int/en/web/roma-genocide
Many thanks to the collaborators for the realization of the exhibition:
The House of Culture “Dimitar Berovski” – Berovo, Representatives of the Museum of the City of Berovo,
Culture Center “Nikola Jonkov Vaptsarov” – Delchevo
The organization ŽENA – Delčevo
ISKRA Library – Kocani
Municipality of Kočani
Europe House Kriva Palanka
House of Culture “Lazar Sofianov” – Kratovo
