2 August 2020
Irmgard Schwaetzer
Chair of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)
Statement on the occasion of the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and 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.
We are stunned in the face and at this place of the industrially planned cold mass murder and it was indeed very important for us to be able to commemorate this day of remembrance, this mass murder of the Roma and Sinti here in Auschwitz and our gratitude indeed goes to Romani Rose, the president of the Central Council of Sinti and Roma in Germany, but also to Dr. Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, for spending this day with us here in Auschwitz.
Statements
Romani Rose
Chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma
Helena Dalli
European Commissioner for Equality
Claudia Roth
Vice President of the German Bundestag
Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada
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)
Ilona Lagrene
Civil Rights Activist
Adam Strauß
Chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma in Hesse
Manon Aubry
Manon Aubry, MEP
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
Ursula Krechel
Writer
Romani Rose
Chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and 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
President of the Slovak Republic
Alexander Van der Bellen
President of Austria
Stevo Pendarovski
President of North Macedonia
Helena Dalli
Commissioner for Equality, European Commission
