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Porajmos The Genocide of European Roma (“Gypsies”) with Dr. Ian Hancock
Posted by mzimmerman79@gmail.com on Thursday, July 26, 2012 in Calendar.
Thursday, September 13th at 7pm in Furman Hall 114
Porajmos: The Genocide of European Roma (“Gypsies”), 1939-1945
Professor Ian Hancock
Drawing support from many non-Nazi Germans who harbored social prejudice towards Roma, the Nazis judged Roma to be “racially inferior.” The fate of Roma in many respects paralleled that of the Jews. Under the Nazi regime, German authorities subjected Roma to arbitrary internment, forced labor, and mass murder. German authorities murdered tens of thousands of Roma in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Serbia and thousands more in the killing centers. Estimates of the death toll of Romanies in World War II range from 220,000 to 1,500,000. Antiziganism, that is, hostility, prejudice or racism directed at the Romani people continues in many European countries today. Ian Hancock is a Romani scholar, and political advocate. He was born and raised in England, and is one of the main contributors in the field of Romani studies. He is director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972. He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council