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Roma and Sinti Human Rights

Explore programs about the fate of the Roma and Sinti communities during the Holocaust, as well as the state of their contemporary human rights in Europe and the Balkans. Click here to see the complete playlist on YouTube.

Recorded Events
Mapping the Holocaust By Bullets (2022)
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Dr. Ewa Schaller, Senior Program Officer, Educator and Education Coordinator at American Friends of Yahad-In Unum, discusses investigations into the fate of the Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union, as well as showcases an interactive map that features these execution sites, along with archival documentation and eyewitness interviews. For more information about Yahad-In Unum’s work, please visit https://yiu.ngo/en. ​The event was organized by the Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and co-sponsored by the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College; the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at Saint Elizabeth University; and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University.

Symposium: Resurfacing Memories of the Holocaust in Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia (2022)
This symposium was co-convened by the Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.

The Fates of the Roma and Sinti during the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavia
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This panel marks the launch of new research commissioned by the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG) and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. Featuring: 

Matei Demetrescu, Program Officer at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Hristo Kyuchukov, Professor of Intercultural Education at the University of Silesia, Poland
Alenka Janko Spreizer, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Primorska, Slovenia
Hikmet Karčić, genocide and Holocaust scholar
Margareta Matache, Director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Tanya Domi, Harriman Institute, moderator

Symposium: The State of Roma Human Rights in the Balkans (2021)
This symposium was co-convened by the Kupferberg Holocaust Center and the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.

The State of Romani Human Rights in Europe
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Margaeta Matache, Director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Ethel Brooks, Rutgers University
Tanya Domi, Harriman Institute, moderator

A Roma Educational Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Velma Sarić, President of the Post Conflict Research Center, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)
Miloš Bogičević, Head of Human Rights, OSCE Mission to BiH
Mirko Pincelli, Photographer and filmmaker working on documenting the lives of Roma communities in BiH
Dalibor Tanić, Roma activist and Editor-in-Chief of UDAR, a regional Roma multimedia portal 
Dr. Laura Cohen, Executive Director, Kupferberg Holocaust Center, moderator

What is Going on in Europe and the Balkans?
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Goran Miletić, Europe Director, Civil Rights Defenders
Deniz Selmani, Co-Founder and Program Director of Romalitico Skopje; Obama Foundation Leader, Europe Program
Anna Orsos, Women’s Rights Officer, European Roma Rights Centre
Ðorđe Jovanović, President of the European Roma Rights Centre
Tanya Domi, Harriman Institute, moderator

Above image: Alija Krasnici, Roma author, playwright, and poet. Photo courtesy of the Post/Post-Conflict Research Center / Vedran Živković.