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Support Roma Holocaust survivors in Ukraine

    Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma
    A project from Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma in Kiew, Ukraine
    Many Roma Holocaust survivors in Ukraine need our help and solidarity. On the occasion of the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma on 2 August, we ask for your support for the survivors.

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    About this project

    Romani Rose from Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma is responsible for this project
    Every day, with the help of donations, we can help many elderly survivors of Nazi persecution in Ukraine. They are in a persistently precarious living situation due to the war. This fundraising campaign aims to ensure that several hundred very elderly survivors from the Roma minority receive emergency financial aid. 
     
    European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma 
    On 2 August, we commemorate the last 4,300 Sinti and Roma in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, who were murdered by the SS on that night in 1944 despite their fierce resistance. In memory of all 500,000 Sinti and Roma murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe, the European Parliament declared this date the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma in 2015. 
     
    The "Aid network for the survivors of Nazi persecution in Ukraine" 
    Until now, 48 memorial sites, museums, associations and initiatives have joined forces in the "Aid network for the survivors of Nazi persecution in Ukraine". Since 9 March, this unprecedented alliance has been able to help almost 400 survivors of Nazi persecution, among them many survivors of the Roma Genocide, as well as their relatives and colleagues from our partner institutions, in a variety of ways. So far, almost 100,000 euros in donations have been used for this purpose. The coordination of the aid network is supported by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility, Future (EVZ). Since the beginning of the war, the EVZ Foundation has also supported numerous Roma self-organisations in Ukraine that provide humanitarian aid and support Roma Holocaust survivors in particular. 
     
    Coordination and implementation of the fundraising campaign 
    This fundraising campaign within the framework of the "Aid network for the survivors of Nazi persecution in Ukraine" is coordinated and implemented by the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, the Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma, ternYpe International Roma Youth Network and the youth remembrance initiative "Dikh He Na Bister" in cooperation with the Ukrainian Roma youth organisation ARCA. The aid network has an important local partner in ARCA (Youth Agency for the Advocacy of Roma Culture), which ensures that we reach survivors of the genocide against the Roma and convey direct help to them. 

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