Rrom people: Lessons from Siero – Nortes

On August 2, 1944, 4,300 people were recorded to have been murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Samudaripongenocide against the Gypsies.

Between 250,000 and 500,000 Gypsies were exterminated by Nazism and its allies. Other sources increase this number to 800,000.

Total murder, exhaustion from hard labour, starvation, disease in extermination camps, brutal mass deportations, even forced sterilisation.

In January 1940, the first Gypsy massacre took place in a concentration camp. Buchenwald 250 Roma boys and girls were used in various “scientific” experiments, which resulted in their deaths.

(It was in this Nazi concentration camp that the Poles were imprisoned Vicente Garcia Restelaas well as other spaces in the Siero Park and in Santori’s book: “42,553. After Buchenwald“).

association MystosAfter preparing the event (and flowers in the colors of the gypsy flag) at the venue in La Pola, they wanted to pay tribute to Vicente in the park and in front of his plaque.

Manolo GabAli He recalled that in that space he had spoken with Vicente (in 2018, his last trip before his death), who asked him about the gypsies in Franco and the Nazi repression: Vicente told him that in France he had met Republican gypsies from Noreña, the “cassock Ramon JimenezThe legend or truth about him is that his wife disguised as a man (priest or soldier?) managed to rescue him from the countryside and return to Noreña, where they raised many offspring (among them the famous boxer “Gitano Jiménez”).

In countries like Germany, these events were not acknowledged until 40 years later, and certainly no Nazis were convicted for the massacres of the Gypsies (three quarters of Germany’s Roma population were exterminated).

In the early days of Samudaripon, most of the murders of Gypsies took place in the streets. Rather than succumbing to their cruel fate, the Roma organized themselves and put up a strong resistance against the SS members, who were eventually shot in their own homes.

There is still one”Roma Resistance Day”, on May 16, calling on those imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to resist, knowing that they would be gassed that night.

But in our country The memories of the strongest repression can be traced back to Philip V and Ferdinand VII. Marquis of Ensenada As a persecuting minister.

On July 30, 1749, thousands of Gypsies were rounded up on the peninsula, an event recorded as the “Great Raid” or “General Prison of the Gypsies,” which represented a leap forward in a process that had begun two years earlier. A century and a half earlier, in 1499, under the Catholic Monarchs, the first laws against the Roma were enacted.

“They separated children over seven from their mothers, they arrested and quarantined them to stop our people from reproducing. Meanwhile, these people were locked up and forced to build the ports of Ferrol, Cartagena and Calaca.”

The Marquis of Ensenada’s extermination program continued for another 14 years until 1563, during the reign of Charles III, who ordered the release of the imprisoned gypsies.

Later, those who were subjected to reprisals during the Spanish War and the Franco regime were also Gypsies, because the mere fact of being a Gypsy constituted grounds for persecution.

Manolo Gavarri, in recovering his memory today, also wants to confirm how the gypsyphobia caused by centuries of repression, and the respect for figures such as Vicente García Riestra, inevitably lead us Reject Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

April 8 Celebrate this Romani day. Refers to the date of an international meeting or congress you are hosting. This hymn continues to commemorate the events of Samudaripen: