The Roma Holocaust: History, Memory, Collective Trauma
Fri 30 Jan
|Romanian Cultural Institute
A talk to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day


Time & Location
30 Jan 2026, 19:00 – 21:00
Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PH, UK
About the event
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, Ambassador of Romania to the UK. The evening will open with remarks by H.E. Laura Popescu, Ambassador of Romania to the UK, Iulian Paraschiv, President of the National Agency for Roma, and Dincer…
