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Remembering means working. About the remembrance of Sinti and Romanies, who died during the nazi terror

Sinti und Roma

Has Austria learnt its lesson from history? What about Austria’s part of responsibility for the Holocaust? Developments on the local level indicate the country’s temper very well. Efforts to remembrance of Sinti and RomaConsidered a pejorative collective term for Roma and Sinti. These nomadic people are believed to have come originally from northwest India, which they left for Persia in the first millennium A.D. Traveling mostly in small caravans, Roma and Sinti first appeared in western Europe after the fourteenth century. By the sixteenth century, they had settled in every country of Europe. It is estimated that between 250,000-500,000 Roma and Sinti perished in the gas chambers, concentration camps, ghettos, and mass executions of German-occupied Europe during World War II., who were deported to Concentration Camps from Salzburg, was an unpopular issue in council meetings in the 1980s. Huge protests took place against the installation of a RomaThe predominant populace of Gypsies residing in Central Europe, especially in Germany. (See "Gypsies," "Roma") and Sinti monument. Today one cannot doubt that at least the officials of Salzburg stick by their historical responsibility. What effect did this change of mind during the last 20 years have?
Georg Wimmer has created the following broadcast, about the forms of remembrance projects of schools and NGO’s.

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Source: Hörmahnmal