Prof. Hancock on the Exclusion of Roma from the Number of Holocaust Victims by the President of EU Parliament

Professor Emeritus Ian Hancock from the University of Texas at Austin was the first to react to the news that the Roma victims had been excluded from the number of the Holocaust victims by the President of the European Parliament https://euromapress.com/%d0%bcs-metsola-paid-tribute-to-6-million-holocaust-victims-but-forgot-about-roma/Here is his reply in English and Romanes.

Yehuda Bauer called us Hitler’s “afterthought” in his genocidal plan. For Ms. Metsola, we weren’t even that. It is intensely worrying to me that our own Romani response to being left out of history is almost non-existent; there are so few of our own voices. The time is long past when we could say “well, they just don’t know;” That cannot be an excuse now, because the details of the planned extermination of our people (ours was the same percentage of losses in Nazi-controlled Europe as that of the Jews) are widely accessible. So I am forced to think that this exclusion is a deliberate policy, not one based on ignorance. I have thought about why, in my writings.

I want to believe that it is because we lack the tools to speak up and make our case. And those tools are education. I don’t want to believe that we simply don’t care.

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Maj de sar jekh data, ramosardja o Yehuda Bauer ke pal’e Rrom, and’e godja le Hitleroske, o Porrajmos “feri xurdorro gindo sas” ande pesko prepedimasko plano. La Ms. Metsolake, chi dazhi kodo sas. But, but nekazhil man k’ amare Rrom den pashtje nichi marimos pretjiv sar shudine sam p’i rig la historiaki. Kajtji xantsi si amare glasura.

Na maj shaj phenas ke “No, chi zhanen feri.” Numa adjes, kodo jertimos chi zhal pe; kajgodi shaj rakhel varekon informacija pal‘o mudarimos (jekh fjalo sas o gin e Rromane mudardenge sar kodoleske e Zhidovonge ande kodja partja la Eropaki poronchime le Nacijondar). Pala kodo pe sila musaj te hatjerav ke kadja ekskluzija amare zhenenge deliberatni trejaba si; naj bizhanglipe. Pushlem anda soste, an’ jekh-duj m’e ramomata; ameninca sam, klaro.

Mangav te patja ma ke bizorale sam ke naj amende i dosta “sastrja“ te mukhen amen te vrakeras bare glasonsa, te das amaro xamos.

Mangav te patja ma and’o ilo ke naj veska amende naj sama feri, ke naj amende kak nekazo.

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