Roma deportation in Transnistria, commemorated in Craiova

Craiova hosted and event dedicated to the commemoration of Roma deportation in Transnistria. 76 years ago, at the order of Marshal Ion Antonescu, Roma deportation was begun, which counted approximately 25.000 people.
The event took place during the period 4-6 June 2018 and included an international conference on the Holocaust theme, a round table on the offering of compensatory pensions by the Romania Government, a commemoration event for the victims of the Transnistria deportation and workshops on youth education and of didactic personnel on the Transnistria genocide.
The event is part of the project “Realms of Death – Remembrance about the Porajmos in Eastern Europe (REDE)”, implemented by the Nevo Parudimos Association in partnership with a series of international partners.
The purpose of this project is to raise awareness on the Holocaust, by putting and accent on events that took place in Hungary and in Transnistria, at the end of the Second World War, in order to keep a living memory of the Roma and Sinti victims of Nazism. Our European values and the integration ones are especially built on our historical experience and on the memory of ancient time, this the forgotten Roma genocide must surface, because it counted more than 500.000 victims and continued with social exclusion, discrimination and painful discussion as consequence of ignorance of non-recognition of the Roma genocide.
Through this project, the obtained of an improvement of educators’ knowledge is desired, of citizens and of the entire civil society, on the Roma Holocaust, especially of those from the Romanian and Hungarian reality.
On the 1st of June 1942, at the order of Marshal Ion Antonescu, Roma deportation in Transnistria was started. During the first phase only nomad Roma was taken into consideration, later the “not-mobile” ones, approximately 25.000 Roma people being deported, of which 14.000 returned home and the rest of 11.000 died of cold weather, hunger and disease that appeared as a result of inhuman conditions they were subjected to.