News in English     | 16.05.2021. 12:05 |

On eve of Romani Resistance Day - The Roma have a tradition of fighting fascism

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, May 15 (FENA) - Around the world, May 16 is marked as Romani Resistance Day when we remember and pay tribute to the heroes of the Roma people. About 6,000 Roma, men, women, and children detained in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, 77 years ago on that day, resisted the Nazi plan to exterminate them.

Auschwitz-Birkenau, dubbed the "gypsy camp", was a place where the Germans did not expect resistance, but, after all, 6,000 Roma did not want to leave their wooden barracks and fall into the hands of the Nazis who wanted to liquidate them. Using weapons such as wooden boards, wire, and stones, they made united resistance to the Nazi regime.

This was the first organized resistance of the detainees in the camp. Unfortunately, the detainees managed to postpone the inevitable death for only a few months.

On the night between August 2 and 3 of that year, the German SS liquidated the detainees of the "gypsy camp" and more than two thousand and 900 women, children, old and sick Roma and Sinti during that night, first suffocated in gas chambers, and their bodies were burned in the crematorium.

Although all this seems like a distant past, a large number of Roma communities across Europe are still exposed to attacks by right-wing and neo-Nazi movements.

A large number of members of this community do not know the history of their people and forget about those who opposed the Nazi regime on that day. The lack of museums, space, school textbooks that talk about Roma history is one of the reasons why the struggle of the Roma people is forgotten.

The Association of Young Roma "Axiom" emphasizes the importance of a joint and united fight against discrimination, segregation, and any attempt to treat Roma men and women as second-class citizens. They also call on the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to do their utmost to mark this day and all other dates important to the Roma community in a dignified manner, in order to avoid oblivion.

"The Roma have a tradition of fighting fascism and today we are proud of the achievement that united Europe after the Second World War and of which we are an inseparable part," they add from that association.

(FENA) L. N.

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