2. August 2021
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.
Stellungnahmen
Romani Rose
Vorsitzender des Zentralrats Deutscher Sinti und Roma
Helena Dalli
EU-Kommissarin für Gleichstellung
Claudia Roth
Vizepräsidentin des Deutschen Bundestages
Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada
Erich Schneeberger
stellv. Vorsitzender des Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrums Deutscher Sinti und Roma und Vorsitzender des Verbands Deutscher Sinti und Roma – Landesverband Bayern
Timea Junghaus
Executive Director
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC)
Ilona Lagrene
Bürgerrechtsaktivistin
Adam Strauß
Vorsitzender des Landesverbandes Deutscher Sinti und Roma Hessen
Manon Aubry
Manon Aubry, MEP
Philomena Franz
Holocaust-Überlebende
Angelina Kappler
German former Weinkönigin
Marian Kalwary
Chairman of the Association of Jews,
Survivors and Victims of the Second World War
Piotr Gliński
First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland
Ursula Krechel
Schriftstellerin
Romani Rose
Vorsitzender des Zentralrats Deutscher Sinti und Roma
Kamil Majchrzak
Vice-President of the International Committee Buchenwald Dora and Kommandos (ICBD) and Member to the Delegation of the Polish Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi Prisons and Concentration Camps
(PZBWPHWiOK)
Zuzana Čaputová
Präsidentin der Slowakischen Republik
Alexander Van der Bellen
Bundespräsident der Republik Österreich
Stevo Pendarovski
Präsident der Republik Nordmazedonien
Helena Dalli
Kommissarin für Gleichheitspolitik, Europäische Kommission
