2 August 2021
Marian Kalwary
Chairman of the Association of Jews, Survivors and Victims of the Second World War
Statement on the Occasion of the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma on 2 August 2021
Dear Roma friends,
August 2 marks the 77th anniversary of the liquidation of the “Gypsy Camp” in Auschwitz-Birkenau by the German genocidal murderers. This was one of the last stages in the extermination of the Sinti and Roma. On this day we honor all Sinti and Roma who were atrociously murdered not only in Auschwitz, but also in Belzec and Treblinka and in many other places of Nazi massacres.
Unfortunately, it was not a stroke of luck that linked our fate, of the Jews and the Roma, but a tragedy of ourselves, our families and ancestors, altogether victims of German fascism, racism and nationalism. Similar to the Jews, they were condemned to be exterminated only because they were born in such and no other ethnic groups.
Therefore, the Jewish Holocaust and Porajmos are identical.
My dear friends, let us stand up against all the racist homophobes and nationalist scum, so that we can live calmly, with dignity and pride.
Statements 2021

Romani Rose
Przewodniczący Centralnej Rady Niemieckich Sinti i Romów

Katarina Barley
Vice President of the European Parliament

Helena Dalli
Komisarz ds. Równości Unii Europejskiej

Claudia Roth
Vice President of the German Bundestag

Paul Blokhuis
Dutch State Secretary Paul Blokhuis

Chris J. Lazaris
Amb. Chris J. Lazaris, IHRA Chairman

Fernand des Varennes
UN Special Rapporteur UN minorities

Anna-Nicole Heinrich
President of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)

Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada

Roman Kwiatkowski
Chairman of the Association of Roma in Poland

Erich Schneeberger
Deputy Chairman of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma and Chairman of the Association of German Sinti and Roma

Timea Junghaus
Executive Director
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC)

Adam Strauß
Chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma in Hesse

Manon Aubry
Manon Aubry, MEP

Adrian-Nicolae Furtuna
Historian at the University of Bucharest

Philomena Franz
Holocaust Survivor

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

Izabela Tiberiade
Young Activist from Sweden

Ursula Krechel
Writer

Marija Pejčinović Burić
Sekretarz Generalny Rady Europy

Klaus Iohannis
Prezydent Rumunii