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From Pig Farm to Genocide Memorial: Lety and the Struggle for Recognition of the Genocide against the Roma and Sinti

Name: From Pig Farm to Genocide Memorial: Lety and the Struggle for Recognition of the Genocide against the Roma and Sinti
Start: 2020-09-16T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2020-09-16T11:00:00+00:00

16th September 2020 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

As part of its 2020 programme of remembrance, education and outreach about the Holocaust, the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme is organizing an online panel discussion on 16 September, “From Pig Farm to Genocide Memorial: Lety and the Struggle for Recognition of the Genocide against the Roma and Sinti”.

The discussion will examine the history of the impact of the Holocaust on the Roma and Sinti. It will explore the struggle for recognition of the Lety concentration as an historical site of the campaign waged against the Roma and Sinti. The panel will also consider how grief and catastrophic loss can be rendered in a memorial.

Date: Wednesday, 16 September
Time: 10:00 a.m. EDT

Link to register: https://bit.ly/2Gq6TJL

Guests:

Professor Ethel Brooks, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University, Chair, European Roma Rights Centre

Professor Julian Bonder, Architect, designer, and teacher, Roger Williams University

Dr. Anna Míšková, Historian, Museum of Romani Culture, Brno

The event will be moderated by Tracey Petersen, The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, Department of Global Communications

Details

Date:: 16th September 2020
Time:: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Event Category:: Fresenius University of Applied Sciences New York