The exhibition ‘Racial Diagnosis: Gypsy’ at the National Museum of Kosovo displays photographs of Roma and Sinti people who were killed at the Nazis’ Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during World War II. This post is also available in this language: Shqip Bos/Hrv/Srp The exhibition ‘Racial Diagnosis: Gypsy’ opened on Thursday evening at the National Museum of Kosovo in Pristina, telling the story of the “forgotten genocide” of Roma and Sinti people by Germany’s Nazi regime during World War II. The exhibition includes 100 pictures of victims who died at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp as well documents that show how Nazis planned the genocide. It also includes family pictures that illustrate how Roma and Sinti people were integrated into local life in Germany and German documents and testimonies by Nazis that explain how Roma and Sinti people were systematically dehumanized. Denis Avdi of the Voice of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians NGO, which co-organised the exhibition. Photo: BIRN/Serbeze Haxhiaj. The exhibition was organized by Kosovo NGO Voice of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians in cooperation with the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and the Documentation Centre of German Sinti and Roma.
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