Language:
German
Year of publication:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
S: I. M. O. N.
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (2015) 79-100
Keywords:
Bauer, Yehuda
;
Rose, Romani
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Romani Genocide, 1939-1945
Abstract:
In 1992, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany decided to dedicate a memorial to the victims of the genocide of Sinti and Roma. The Memorial for the Sinti and Roma of Europe murdered under National Socialism by the artist Dani Karavan was inaugurated in October 2012 in the centre of Berlin, near the former Reichstag building. The planning and construction phase spanned two decades, during which many discussions addressed the significance awarded to the Nazi persecution of "gypsies" next to the Holocaust. These discussions reached an apex in a controversy enacted via media between Yehuda Bauer (then the director of the International School for Holocaust Studies in Yad Vashem) and Romani Rose (the head of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma). This paper critically reflects the debates in light of new research results on the genocide of Sinti and Roma.
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