Holocaust

Czech court postpones hearing in case of anti-Romani signs posted at site of former concentration camp to hear explanation of mobile phone data

4.10.2019 6:37  full story

Norway: Oslo City Council wants to ask Government for a memorial to Holocaust victims of Romani origin

21.9.2019 13:33  full story

Czech film of "The Painted Bird" features Romani child actor in the main role

15.9.2019 10:08  full story

Czech archaeologists discover two graves of Romani concentration camp victims at Lety u Písku

14.9.2019 15:46  full story

Last survivor of Czech students sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp has passed away in the Czech Republic

3.9.2019 6:41  full story

Archaeological survey continues at site of former concentration camp for Roma in Czech Republic

25.8.2019 10:40  full story

Slovak President: The Holocaust of the Roma cannot be forgotten, especially when hatred is becoming a political tool once more

11.8.2019 12:53  full story

Poland: Vandals deface Holocaust memorials in multiple locations, disrupt Jewish festival

21.6.2019 17:29  full story

The Romani Uprising in Auschwitz, 16 May 1944

16.5.2019 9:01 On 16 May 1944, in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, something completely extraordinary occurred: Romani people imprisoned in the so-called "Gypsy Camp" there rebelled against the SS. This historical event is still almost unknown in the Czech Republic, but 16 May is becoming more and more popular worldwide as Romani Resistance Day.  full story

videoLIVE AT NOON TODAY: Commemoration at the former concentration camp for Roma in Lety, Czech Republic

12.5.2019 6:30  full story

Commemoration at WWII-era concentration camp for Roma in Czech Republic to give Award for Humanity in memoriam to Dr Alfred Bader

3.5.2019 10:52  full story

Czech lower house decides not to strip MP of immunity over his remarks denying the Holocaust of the Roma

14.3.2019 9:48  full story

Czech lower house committee does not recommend stripping MP of immunity over denying the Holocaust of the Roma

8.3.2019 10:04  full story

Roma testimonies recall their families' Holocaust suffering

1.2.2019 14:47  full story

videoCzech MPs avoid round table about the Holocaust and its Romani victims

31.1.2019 8:35  full story

videoMonika Mihaličková to the Czech Senate: Election laws must not allow the horrors of the Holocaust to repeat

26.1.2019 17:07  full story

Czech Police ask lower house to lift immunity on MP who called Romani genocide site a "non-existing pseudo-concentration camp"

17.12.2018 6:57  full story

Czech Police must re-investigate one MP for Holocaust denial, but head of ultranationalist party will not be prosecuted

4.12.2018 10:11  full story

videoVIDEO: Chair of Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust in the Czech Republic on the archaeological findings there

16.11.2018 12:46 On Monday, 12 November, news server Romea.cz interviewed the chair of the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust in the Czech Republic (VPORH), Čeněk Růžička, at the site of the archaeological probes into what have been assumed to be mass burial pits for the former prisoners of the WWII-era concentration camp at Lety. An international research team under the direction of Pavel Vařeka from the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň has been performing the very first non-invasive archaeological probe ever near the memorial currently at the site.  full story

Holocaust memorial in Czech town will bloom with yellow crocuses in the spring

17.10.2018 10:44 Almost 4 000 yellow crocuses will bloom in the spring at the memorial to the Holocaust on Vodní Street in Valašské Meziříčí (Vsetín district). An important Jewish community once resided there prior to the Second World War.  full story