Zoni Weisz, holocaust survivor, the first ever Sinti and Roma guest of honour at Germany’s official Holocaust remembrance day in the Bundestag today, speaks out against discrimination [00:24:30-00:55:55]. Introduced [00:18:38-00:24:30] and followed [00:57:00-01:02:06] by the Hungarian Roma guitarist, Ferenc Snétberger.
Watch the video with English translation here (or in German here).
Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism
On 27 January, the German Bundestag held a Ceremony of Remembrance for the victims of National Socialism. Parliament has held a ceremony each year since 1996 on this date, on which the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated in 1945. The guest speaker this year was Mr Zoni Weisz, a Holocaust survivor from the Netherlands and representative of the Sinti.
Tags: Bundestag, Ferenc Snétberger, Zoni Weisz
