Berlin, Jan 27 (EFE) .- A Dutch gypsy, Zoni Weisz, was the keynote speaker today at the Bundestag, the German parliament, the ho ra
commemorate the liberation of Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz 66 years ago in the day on which Germany pays tribute to Holocaust victims.
And his speech was devoted above all to remember what he called as "the forgotten holocaust", referring to about half a million Sinti and Roma, the great families of Central European Roma victims of the Nazi machine.
The Roma Holocaust has only begun to be more recently the subject of historical research, recalled Weisz, who survived Nazi persecution due to a series of coincidences.
16 May 1944 in a series of raids his parents and siblings, who lived in the small Dutch town of Zutphen, were arrested by Nazi occupation forces. Zoni
Weisz, who was seven years old, was not arrested because he was visiting an aunt's house outside the city but Nazis then gave him, and nine others.
On the way to Auschwitz, in a season where they had to change trains, a Dutch police helped him and his companions to escape. Weisz
survived the last year of the occupation hidden and end of the war knew that their fathers and brothers had died in the concentration camp. Although
Weisz says his family was a normal, happy family until 1944, also stressed that the persecution of the Gypsies had begun long before the arrival to power of the Nazis and in many European countries has not ended.
"Despite the half a million of Sinti and Roma murdered in the Nazi time society has learned nothing from it. Otherwise, now would behave more responsibly towards us, "said Weisz.
" We are Europeans and we have the same rights as others, "Holocaust survivor.
stressed that of particular concern in countries like Bulgaria and Romania in the Sinti and Roma still have to live a life unworthy.
In Hungary, according to Weisz, the Roma minority is persecuted openly right-wing black uniforms and other Eastern European countries there are restaurants with signs that say, "No entry to Roma. "
Bundestag President Norbert Lammert, said that Roma continue to be "the largest minority in Europe and most discriminated against."
Source: http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=668528
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