TRACER - Transformative Roma Art and Culture for European Remembrance is a project funded under the European Commission's Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme. The aim of the project is to involve groups of Roma and non-Roma youths and teenagers in Italy, Portugal and Poland in the construction of a shared memory of the holocaust of Sinti and Roma minorities in Europe.
Are now available the video and other materials of the conference "Roma Art and Culture for European History: from the Porrajmos to European Citizenship. Suggestions from the TRACER project".
The conference "Art and Culture for Narrative and Inclusion. Presentation of the European project Trasformative Roma Art and Culture for European Remembrance" will be held on 25 October at 4.30 p.m. at the University of Florence (teaching facility la Torretta).
The conference "Roma Art and Culture for European History: from the Porrajmos to European Citizenship. Suggestions from the TRACER project" is in the programme of the International History Festival and will be held at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Bologna on 20th October at 4.30 pm.
The conference proposes a reflection starting from the experience of young Roma and non-Roma who undertook a journey to Auschwitz-Birkenau and participated to a collective training process promoted by the European project TRACER.
The conference “Roma and Sinti youth encounter the Porrajmos” is in the programme of the International History Festival and will be held at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Bologna on 23th October at 3.30 pm.
After the significant experience in Poland (trip, visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, sharing of experiences with other peers), TRACER young leaders continued their action research, producing:
- some written reflections about the journey in Poland and the visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau;
- some photos and short videos of travel, journey, visits, workshops, and share moments.
On this date we commemorate the victims of Porrajmos, the extermination of Roma and Sinti during World War II. The date was chosen to commemorate the night of 2nd August 1944 in which more than 4,000 people - men, women, children and elderly people - were murdered in the Zigeunerlager of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
In 2015, the European Parliament declared 2nd August European Day of Remembrance of the Nazi Extermination of Roma and Sinti to remember the 500,000 European Roma murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe.
In these months the groups of young leaders continued the research, reflecting and re-elaborating the historical contents collected in relation to the Holocaust and the history of Roma people.
Their work produced:
