🕯On 2 August 1944, around 4,300 Roma and Sinti were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, ending of the so-called ‘Gypsy family camp’.

This was part of the Roma Holocaust, which took over 500,000 lives.

Today we honour the memory of victims & stand against prejudice of Romani people.

👨🏼‍🏫With the Council of Europe, we're working to bring Roma Holocaust history in school curricula across Europe, so young people can grow up embracing inclusion.

🔗 https://europa.eu/!4nx88N

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@EUCommission In rememberance. #neveragain

I would not use US companies anymore, not even adobe’s image repository.

"Whether our mother was there in body or not - we are all second, third & fourth generation to victims of #starvation & extermination. And the one commandment the victims left us, all of us, is simple: #NeverAgain
...

But in 2025, the #Israeli army, on orders from the political echelon, is destroying #Gaza & exterminating its population...

Gaza's besieged population has also been deliberately & systematically starved."
https://robertreich.substack.com/i/169603272/silence-in-the-face-of-gazas-starvation-is-absolute-betrayal-of-holocaust-victims

#Israel#WarCrimes#Politics #News#WorldNews

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Whether our mother was there in body or not - we are all second, third, & fourth generation to victims of starvation and extermination. And the one commandment the victims left us, all of us, is simple: never again.
...

But in 2025, the Israeli army, on orders from the political echelon, is destroying Gaza & exterminating its population. Neighborhood after neighborhood and city after city in the Strip are destroyed to the foundations, and people are expelled with nothing and pushed to crowd into increasingly smaller areas. Like then. After we destroyed all infrastructure, including hospitals, the mortality is relentless. Families constantly shrink and thousands have already been erased from the face of the earth. Others leave behind hopeless orphans, abandoned to their fate. Like then.

Since Israel broke the ceasefire in March, Gaza's besieged population has also been deliberately and systematically starved. Israel allows only very little food to enter the Strip, and what little is allowed in is brought in a way that cannot reach all residents. Children, the sick, the elderly, people weakened by hunger - cannot reach the four food distribution stations Israel created, instead of the 400 stations that operated before. We have decreed their fate to languish until they die of hunger, weakness, and disease. Relatively strong young people who do reach the distribution stations to get some relief are shot to death daily by Israeli soldiers.
Text from article(edited for length): Whether our mother was there in body or not - we are all second, third, & fourth generation to victims of starvation and extermination. And the one commandment the victims left us, all of us, is simple: never again. ... But in 2025, the Israeli army, on orders from the political echelon, is destroying Gaza & exterminating its population. Neighborhood after neighborhood and city after city in the Strip are destroyed to the foundations, and people are expelled with nothing and pushed to crowd into increasingly smaller areas. Like then. After we destroyed all infrastructure, including hospitals, the mortality is relentless. Families constantly shrink and thousands have already been erased from the face of the earth. Others leave behind hopeless orphans, abandoned to their fate. Like then. Since Israel broke the ceasefire in March, Gaza's besieged population has also been deliberately and systematically starved. Israel allows only very little food to enter the Strip, and what little is allowed in is brought in a way that cannot reach all residents. Children, the sick, the elderly, people weakened by hunger - cannot reach the four food distribution stations Israel created, instead of the 400 stations that operated before. We have decreed their fate to languish until they die of hunger, weakness, and disease. Relatively strong young people who do reach the distribution stations to get some relief are shot to death daily by Israeli soldiers.

The Broken Gramophone and the Stolen Land

I rarely share such personal stories, but these two events from my family's history - one during fascism, one in the post-war period - have profoundly shaped the way I see the world.
I hope they can offer a human perspective on periods often reduced to political slogans.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/11/the-broken-gramophone-and-the-stolen-land/

#MyNotes#Blogging#History#FamilyHistory#HumanRights#NeverAgain#HistoryMatters