Following a
2005 initiative of the European Roma and Travellers Forum, this year the
State Secretary for Social Inclusion of Hungary deems it important to
commemorate for the second time the day of Courage and Romani
Youth, together with many other European countries.
On 21 May 2016 in the National Theatre in
Budapest, we will commemorate the courage that the Roma people showed in
the Zigeunerlager of Auschwitz-Birkenau on 16 May
1944.
Let's commemorate the heroes!
Their sacrifice was not in vain!
The Roma Production Office
("Roma Produkciós Iroda") will commemorate the victims with an evening of
music and literature, with the participation of prominent contemporary
artists.
The programme will include
classical music, traditional gypsy and folklore music, memoirs, pieces of
contemporary literature, background visual elements, pictures and extracts
from films - combined with testimonies of survivors [of the Roma
camp].
These are the artists and actors who will
perform:
Törőcsik
Mari, the actor of the nation
Béres
Ilona, actor
Nyári
Oszkár, actor
Farkas
Dénes, actor
Snétberger
Ferenc, guitarist
Balázs
János, pianist
Lendvai
József, violinist
Szirtes
Edina Mókus, violinist
Cserta
Balázs, clarinettist
Danis
András Kongó, folk musician
Boda
Péter, singer
Beck
Zoltán and the Gypsyndrom
Kalla
Sándor and his Gypsy band
Balogh
Zsolt and his Folk band
Romano
Glaso Folk Band
Speeches delivered by:
Ms.
Langerné Victor Katalin, Deputy State Secretary
Mr.
Áder János, President of Hungary
Mr.
Zoltán Balog, Minister of Human Resources
Organisers
Seres
Tamás
Nyári
Oszkár
The places of
destruction
A
few months after the German National Socialists came to power in 1933 the
concentration camps were already operational. These camps were the places
were the Nazi rule was upheld and their racial ideology was put into
practice. Apart from “extermination through work” the aim of the camps was
the systematic killing of people qualified as inferior and the elimination
of political enemies.
In 1943 Himmler took over
the command of the camps. That is when the smaller camps were phased out
and larger camps were created: Sachsenhausen in 1936, Buchenwald in 1937,
Mauthausen in 1938, Ravensbruck in 1939. Concentration and labour camps
were also established in the countries under Nazi occupation.
After the fall of Poland, the East Upper Silesia was annexed
to the Reich. Here the concentration camp of Auschwitz was built by
Himmler’s order of 27 April 1940. The first arrivals took place in June
1940. In 1941 Himmler ordered the construction of a new part of the camp
in Birkenau, 3 km away from Auschwitz. The main camp was called Auschwitz
I, whereas the second was named Auschwitz-Birkenau. There was also another
camp called Auschwitz III in Monowitz. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest
and at the same time the most inhuman. The crematoriums and the gas
chambers were here, as well as the family lager for the Roma.
In the family lager of Roma 371 children were born. 371 stars – who never got chance for
life….
More information and the
brochure of the event are available
here: http://www.2august.ertf.org/News/index.php/;focus=HSTPTP_cm4all_com_widgets_News_4201257&path=?m=d&a=20160515105250-1737&cp=1#HSTPTP_cm4all_com_widgets_News_4201257
