Gina Csanyi-Robah is co-founder and director of the Canadian Romani Alliance and a member of the Canadian Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
As the remembrance day for the genocide of the Roma on 2 August approaches, she provides Romani perspectives on why this history is still missing from classrooms [...]
The Toronto Roma Community Centre is hosting at Culture Link (2240 Dundas St. W Toronto, ON) on Sunday August 2, 2pm to 4pm
Everyone Welcome
This is Public Awarness
A memory of one of the biggest hate crimes in history that humanity has ever witnessed.
Special Speakers:
Leszlo Sarkozi Jr., and Chantel Hilare
Musical Performance:
Leszlo Sarkozi, Miklos Sarkozi, and Alex T. Sarkozi
Long after he started a new life in Montreal, Paul Herczeg was still bearing witness to the final moments of thousands of Roma sent to their deaths at Auschwitz in a single night in 1944. For decades, well into his 80s, he volunteered with the Montreal Holocaust Museum, meeting with school groups, giving media interviews, contributing to virtual exhibitions and oral history projects [...]
On August 12, 2020, the Genocide of Roma and Sinti, which that took place during WWII was officially recognized by the Government of Canada following a unanimous consent motion in the House of Commons brought forward by Member of Parliament Sameer Zuberi. This official acknowledgement made possible by a successful “Act of Parliament” was the outcome of over a decade of determined work by the Canadian Roma community [...]
