Respect for Holocaust Victims, Long Overdue

Published August 24, 2009 @ 03:07AM PT

The Czech government is finally working to correct an unfortunate error of history and pay due homage to one of the Holocaust's most overlooked victims.

Two former internment camps, where several thousand of Roma (pejoratively and incorrectly referred to as "Gypsies") were held in transit to extermination camps, are currently being used for less-than-commemorative purposes: One is a recreational facility, the other is a pig farm. Can you imagine a basketball court (or whatever Czechs do for recreation) on a site where 200 people died and over a thousand others spent their last days before heading to Auschwitz? Creepy.

But after facing criticism from the European Parliament and human rights activists, the Czechs are stepping up to do the right thing. The properties are currently under negotiation for purchase, and will be turned into memorial and education centers.

So book your tickets to the Czech Republic for 2010 --- at least one of the memorials should be completed by this time next year.

[Photo: A group of Romani prisoners, awaiting instructions from their German captors, sit in an open area near the fence in the Belzec concentration camp.]

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Yes I agree it is time for the world to remember the other people who also killed during the holocaust this way the truth can be known. In which, there were 5 million forgotten people of difference race, hertigue and religion and sexual indentity which were subjected to the holocaust death camps.

Here is an article, which I believe needs to be read, this way we can remember the 5 million non jewish people who also died during the holocaust and combine this with the 6 million Jewish people who died during the holocaust. This way unity will be combined in understanding the truth about our ancestors history.

Holocaust - Non-Jewish Holocaust Victims

http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/

Posted by Lara Nunes on 08/30/2009 @ 01:00AM PT
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Michelle became involved in the anti-genocide cause at a young age, and has been involved in various activist endeavors, including the Teach Against Genocide pilot campaigns, ever since.