I do not mean this in an "I told you so" way, but it is fascinating to watch people *now* realise that many Holocaust orgs are full of racist hacks, when many Roma know that the official Auschwitz museum account will show up in your replies "debunking" Roma Resistance Day tweets
Holocaust remembrance bodies being slowly subsumed by zionists and then collectively coming out as pro-genocide (using nearly identical language) is going to be fascinating for historians and anthropologists to untangle in a couple decades but right now it sucks so fucking bad
"Holocaust Remembrance" as an industry and as a sector has always been about manufacturing consent and you can notice that the moment you start asking about Roma and Sinti remembrance, honestly.
Not exaggerating by the way, for a good few years it's been commonplace that any tweet with a Roma Resistance Day hashtag would get a "helpful" reply from the Auschwitz Museum account to "educate" us on our own history.
Forgot to mention it on the day, but who can forget that Romani Resistance Day for my people, is "time to openly try and 'debunk' a piece of vital oral history of anti-fascist resistance" day for THE LITERAL AUSCHWITZ MUSEUM
Many Jews seem to have this barely-concealed anger at being placed into an 'equal' category of victim as Roma, and that is heavily reflected in the narrative and orientation of many Holocaust organisations. There is a constant undercurrent of "but those Gypsies deserved it".
denying part of the holocaust is holocaust denial fyi. the AuMu relies more on the testimonies of SS soldiers than roma and sinti survivors and oral history, they also deny roma and sinti as victims of the holocaust in favor of a โlesserโ โroma genocideโ.
If you're GRT, watch with caution - it's an especially hard watch. But I need to drive home the point that for our communities, child removal is much more than an individual trauma -- it's a huge cultural trauma.
THIS IS WHAT SPARKED THE RIOTS IN LEEDS
Police attended a house yesterday in the Harehills area of Leeds where they took five children away from a Roma gypsy family.
Roma gypsies are from Romania and Bulgaria, most identify as Christian, and are here legally.
Obsessed with everyone going "omg Bellingcat CIA confirmed they haven't said anything about Gaza" and then Bellingcat dropping the type of investigation the ICC prosecutor is gonna roll out as evidence
Forgot to mention it on the day, but who can forget that Romani Resistance Day for my people, is "time to openly try and 'debunk' a piece of vital oral history of anti-fascist resistance" day for THE LITERAL AUSCHWITZ MUSEUM
See the research of our historians published in July 2018 about the last stage of the #Zigeunerlager in Birkenau: the brave act of passive resistance of Roma & Sinti in early April 1944 (not May 16) & the liquidation of the Roma family camp in August 1944: joom.ag/gKhY/p6
Here's the Holocaust Educational Trust specifically mentioning Auschwitz (where there was a specific internal camp system for Roma & Sinti) but apparently deciding nobody else killed in the Holocaust was worth remembering, or even just mentioning in a tweet.
Forgive me for not marking my usual annual "Holocaust charities blatantly erasing Roma and Sinti" event, so I'll hope you'll all accept this late contribution.
Zigeunerfamilienlager? What Zigeunerfamilienlager?
Mildly obsessed with this picture taken of me at the last Leeds protest, however, also can't help but feel like the high-vis makes me look like a remarkably angry local council worker.