UNO: Holocaust-Gedenken ohne Roma
Januar 27th, 2014 | Published in Geschichte & Gedenken, Veranstaltungen & Ausstellungen
Der 27. Jänner ist ein bedeutender Gedenktag. Die Vereinten Nationen laden alljährlich aus Anlass des International Holocaust Remembrance Day zu einem offiziellen Festakt ins UN-Hauptquartier in New York, um der Millionen Ermordeten des nationalsozialistischen Völkermords zu gedenken. Dennoch ist dieses feierliche Ereignis für viele der Opfer des NS-Genozids ein Affront und eine Demütigung: Bei der diesjährigen Holocaust Memorial Ceremony bleibt mit den Roma und Sinti eine Opfergruppe ausgeschlossen, die in vielen Gebieten fast zur Gänze dem Rassenwahn der Nationalsozialisten zum Opfer fiel (so auch in Österreich, wo statistisch nur einer von zehn Angehörigen der Volksgruppe die NS-Verfolgung überlebte). Die Proteststimmen der Betroffenen (etwa hier, hier oder hier) werden igoniert, das Leid der aus rassischen Gründen mit dem Ziel ihrer Vernichtung verfolgten und in den KZs ermordeten Roma bleibt wie so oft ungehört: Es ist, man kann es nicht anders nennen, eine Schande.
Dabei hatten die Roma in den letzten Jahren Anlass zur Hoffnung, dass auch ihr Schicksal und ihre Opfer nicht länger achtlos übergangen werden: Nach energischen Protesten war 2010 mit dem Polen Andrzej Mirga erstmals auch ein Roma-Vertreter als Redner des UN-Gedenkaktes eingeladen worden. Für die Roma war diese Anerkennung ein sehr erfreulicher, bedeutender Schritt. Doch die Repräsentation von Roma „endete so schnell, wie sie begonnen hat“, schreibt Petra Gelbart, selbst Romni und seit 2009 Gast der UN-Gedenkfeiern. Über die Veranstaltungen der letzten Jahre berichtete sie 2012:
The substantive inclusion of Romanies has not been replicated in the UN lobby exhibits or in any other UN-sponsored program during or since that time. We need to see not a one-time token gesture but rather a permanent change in approach
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. In 2011, the Remembrance event included a brief video testimony from a Romani survivor. However, once again no Roma or Sinti had been invited to participate, and as usual the Holocaust and its aftermath were implicitly defined as an exclusively Jewish matter. In 2012, for a minute or so out of the entire program, a Sinti person was featured, again only on the screen. It was Setella Steinbach, whose story was recounted as part of a string of portrayals of child victims. (…) Later in the program, a parallel on-screen display was shown, honoring specific Jewish Holocaust survivors and their contributions to society. The absence of a single Romani survivor was a stark reminder of the widespread idea that Roma and Sinti have few cultural merits, in addition to being unworthy of participation in Holocaust remembrance planning.
Erst im Vorjahr war mit der Wissenschaftlerin Ethel Brooks wieder eine Vertreterin der Roma als Rednerin zugelassen (hier das Video). Was eine Selbstverständlichkeit im Ablauf des Festaktes sein sollte, die Sichtbarkeit der Opfer der Roma – und seien es nur, wie aktuell gefordert, fünf Minuten des Festprogrammes –, bleibt heute jedoch neuerlich ausgespart. In ihrem offenen Brief findet Petra Gelbart dafür klare Worte:
I am myself Romani, from the Czech Republic. For years, a group of us have been pressing the UN (as well as other organizations) to include Roma in Holocaust memorials. We have met more resistance than you can imagine. We have succeeded in having the UN invite a Romani speaker to the annual commemoration ceremony twice over the last few years, but our request to have five minutes granted to feature invited Romany speakers and survivors each year (out of a ceremony that is 1.5 hours long) has been met with flat rejection, on the grounds that “there isn’t enough time.“ Alongside the Jews, the Roma were the other ethnicity slated for complete annihilation. (…) As descendants of victims and survivors, it is humiliating to be written out of history, of course. (…) The exclusion of Roma from Holocaust ceremonies, or the occasional passing mention of them by tacking on an “and others“ in a ceremony (…) perpetuates current ignorant stereotypes held by majority populations by giving the impression that those Roma who were killed were executed because they led a transient or criminal lifestyle.
Ähnliches ist auch im aktuellen offenen Brief des US-amerikanischen Sprachwissenschaftlers und prominenten Roma-Aktivisten Ian Hancock zu lesen. Im Folgenden ein Auszug:
For too long, proper recognition of the fate of the Romani victims of the Holocaust has been avoided, both at the national and the international level. At best, we are grouped separately as “other victims”(…). The Holocaust (Shoah, Khurbn, Porrajmos) was a massive program of genocide. Just two peoples, Jews and Romanies, were singled out for obliteration. Just two peoples, Jews and Romanies, were singled out for what they were born. Just two peoples, Jews and Romanies, were singled out as targets of a Final Solution. (…) My own people were the victims of attempted genocide in the Holocaust, as were Jews, “for the same reasons using the same methods,” as Miriam Novitch of the Ghetto Fighters’ House in Israel wrote in 1968. Despite these facts, we remain woefully under-represented, and continue to be sidelined in Holocaust commemoration. We still wait for an explanation for this imbalance.
(R. Urbaner/dROMa)