2 August 2020
Dr. Josef Schuster
President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
Statement anlässlich des Europäischen Holocaust-Gedenktages für Sinti und Roma 2020
The chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the chair of the Synod of the EKD, Irmgard Schwaetzer, and the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dr. Josef Schuster, have accompanied the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma to the commemoration ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
It is my concern to be here in Auschwitz today, on the day of remembrance for the murdered Sinti and Roma. Because something connects Jews, Sinti and Roma in this place, they were people. People were deported here and murdered simply because they were Sinti and Roma or because they were Jews, both simply because of their origin. This is something that connects, but it is also meant to express that such an inhuman regime must never again be allowed to become active.
Statements
Sara Bloomfield
Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Irmgard Schwaetzer
Chair of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)
Dr. Josef Schuster
President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
Dr Annette Schavan
Vorsitzende des Kuratoriums der Stiftung EVZ
Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
Chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)
Zeljko Jovanovic
Director of the OSF Roma Initiatives Office
Agnes Daroczi
Founder of Romedia Foundation
Dr Bernd Fabritius
Federal Government Commissioner for Matters Related to Ethnic German Resettlers and National Minorities
Karen Taylor
Chair of the European Network against Racism
Holger Münch
Präsident des Bundeskriminalamtes
Jamen Gabriela Hrabanova
Director of the ERGO Network
Irvin Mujcic
Survivor of the Srebrencia Genocide
Atanas Stoyanov
Phiren Amenca International Network
Alica Heráková
Spokeperson of the Museum of Romani Culture Brno
Bini Guttmann
President of the European Union of Jewish Students
Ismael Cortés
Member of the Spanish Parliament and Roma Activist
Ethel Brooks
Chair of the European Roma Rights Centre
Loránt Vincze
Member of the European Parliament, FUEN President
Laszlo Teleki
Former member of the National Assembly of Hungary
Luc Jacobs
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium in Poland
