from Thursday, 26. September 2024 -  11:45
to Friday, 27. September 2024 - 13:00

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, Research Lounge, 1010 Vienna, Rabensteig 3, 3rd Floor

Around 500.000 Roma were killed during the Holocaust by the National Socialist (NS) regime and their collaborators. Until recently, the NS-Genocide of the Roma has remained broadly unknown and ignored by society while the Romani victims and their descendants have not received political recognition of their racial Nazi persecution and extermination. Despite their sufferings, Romani people had to face pervasive racism and exclusion in post-war societies over decades. The denial to recognise the NS-Roma Genocide in education, research and commemoration signifies the institutionalised discrimination facing Roma in Europe until today.

From 2007 up until today the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Research has promoted the development of digital materials on the Genocide of the Roma in collaboration with the IHRA and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. The result is a digital education tool romasintigenocide.eu available in twelve languages (German, English, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovakian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Calderas-Romani and Burgenland-Romani).

The website promotes education about the Romani Genocide within Holocaust Education beyond the borders and serves teachers and pupils to learn about the NS-persecution and Genocide of the Romani people.

The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust-Studies in partnership with the OeAD-programme ERINNERN:AT will present the learning platform to relevant stakeholder in Central- and South-Eastern Europe and discuss good practices, experiences and challenges in educating about the NS-Genocide of Roma in the region. It will also address how to use the learning tool in other countries to strengthen awareness in education about the NS persecution of Roma and explore the relevance of education about the persecution of Roma during the Holocaust in challenging antigypsyism/anti-Roma discrimination.

Please find the conference programme here.

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