I CARE - #Sweden remembers #Roma #holocaust

6.8.14

I CARE - - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe: 2/8/2014- "The Roma victims of the holocaust have been forgotten all too often. We have to therefore raise our voices," said Domino Kai, chairman of the Swedish International Rome Film Festival and initiator of the ceremony. Kai hopes to establish August 2nd as an official day of remembrance for the atrocity carried out by the Nazis. "One day when we talk properly about the consequences of anti-Roma xenophobia. Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag spoke at the ceremony in Stockholm. Meanwhile an official remembrance ceremony was held at Auschwitz-Birkenau and attended by several Swedish representatives, including MEP Soraya Post of the Feminist Initiative. "There is a growing political interest in the day. More and more people think that it is important," said Domino Kai.