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
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
Chair of the Board of Trustees of the EVZ Foundation
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
President of the Bundeskriminalamt of Germany
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
