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IMADR is pleased to support the Mobile Exhibition entitled ''The Holocaust against the Roma and Sinti and present day racism in Europe,'' hosted by the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma, sister organization of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, one of IMADR’s founding member organizations. IMADR attended the opening event on January 17, 2006 at the Winston Churchill Building in Strasbourg.

This is the first mobile English-language exhibition on the National Socialist genocide against the Sinti and Roma. The prime goal of the exhibition is to examine the holocaust against the Roma and Sinti, and, above all, the extent to which Europe as a whole was involved. The comprehensive final part of the exhibition focuses on present-day racist discrimination against the Sinti and Roma.

UN Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor at the opening of the exhibition in New York (January 30, 2007)

Following the official opening in Strasburg, the exhibition toured Hungary (Budapest and Pécs) and the Czech Republic (Prague and Brno). Preparations are underway to include further venues in Poland, the Ukraine, the Netherlands and Norway.

The exhibition was recently part of the program of the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day in January 2007, and was presented at the United Nations headquarters in New York in January/February 2007. The commemorative event was attended by a delegation of Roma and Sinti representatives, who presented an appeal to the UN Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor asking the UN to further its engagement on behalf of the 12 million Roma and Sinti in Europe. Members of the delegation included Johan Weisz (Holocaust survivor from the Netherlands), Jacques Delfeld (Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Germany), Roman Kwiatkowski (Roma Association of Poland), Yuliya Kondur (Roma Women Fund Chirikli, Ukraine) and Romani Rose (Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma, Germany).

Detailed information on the exhibition can be found here (external link).