The Roma Holocaust: History, Memory and Collective Trauma

The Romanian Cultural Institute in London, in partnership with the Embassy of Romania to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, invite you to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a deeply resonant and reflective event dedicated to the memory of the Roma people who suffered during the dark times of the Second World War. 

The event features a thought-provoking discussion exploring the deportations of Roma and Jewish people to Transnistria in the company of Professor Marius Turda, Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, sociologist and researcher Adrian-Nicolae Furtună, and Roma people's rights activist Virgil Bitu. The conversation will be chaired by UK-based journalist Petru Clej. Opening remarks by H.E. Laura Popescu, the Ambassador of Romania to the United Kingdom.

This event explores one of the most painful and often overlooked chapters of European history: the deportation of Roma communities to Transnistria during the Second…