On the day that we remember the Holocaust and all of the victims that were denied asylum here in America, Donald Trump did this.
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today on international holocaust remembrance day, please make sure not to forget the more than 1 million romani murdered by the nazi regime. (x)
romani were defined as “enemies of the race-based state” alongside jewish people in the nuremberg laws and marked, deported, forced into labor and mass murdered in the same way, wiping more than half of the european romani population out. i don’t say this to downplay the shoah but to impress upon all of you just how devastating the porajmos was to romani and how horrific it is that so very few people know it happened.
it took until 1979 for west germany to admit to any wrongdoing towards romani during world war II. even given that, the porajmos is still regularly erased from history books or ignored.
even now, many of the laws targeting romani during that time are still legal in many european countries, such as forceful sterilization of romani women (x) or segregated schools (x).
romani victims and their families deserve to have their sacrifice and pain heard, not erased and swept under the rug. dikh he na bister.
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this years holocaust remembrance day is very important, given the current political climate. take today to remember the horrifying acts committed against jewish and romani people. take today to recognize the beginning of those same acts forming against PoC in america today. take today to resist those in power however you see fit, and after today, dont stop resisting. i am a jew still personally affected by the holocaust even 2 generations later. every jew is affected by the shoah, but there is a special pain to know what happened to your own family. or worse, not knowing what happened to the unknown people you see in old family photographs. we as a people will never be the same. remember the holocaust today. dont let this happen again.
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