The project aimed to strengthen activism and cooperation of Roma, Jewish and non-Roma/Jewish youth in Hungary in order to challenge antigypsyism and antisemitism and to find common points for cooperation.
The project aimed to strengthen activism and cooperation of Roma, Jewish and non-Roma/Jewish youth in Hungary in order to challenge antigypsyism and antisemitism and to find common points for cooperation.
Phiren Amenca International Network and its partners brought together 150 young Roma and non-Roma people from all over Europe to the European Youth Capital Varna, Bulgaria between 24-30. August, 2017 to raise their voices against racism and discrimination towards Roma people in Europe. These photos were made by participants of the FOCUS workshop, inspired by FOCUS Roma Cinema Youth Project.
The project aimed to strengthen activism and cooperation of Roma, Jewish and non-Roma/Jewish youth in Hungary in order to challenge antigypsyism and antisemitism and to find common points for cooperation.
Romano Glaszo, a Hungarian folk group also joined the group of Phiren Amenca to take part of the Dik I Na Bistar 2016 event in Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau. The band had concerts and a performance in the Galicia Jewish Museum where they performed their Holocaust Ballad. The show the performance in Krakow was supported by the Balassi Institute – Hungarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw as part of their Hungarian Cultural Year in Poland.
Around half thousand young Roma and non-Roma people payed tribute to the memory of those who were violently murdered due to a destructive ideology on August 2, during the official commemoration ceremony by the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma in Auschwitz-Birkenau. On Agust 4, during a youth ceremony by the participants of the Dik I Na Bistar 2016 in Auschwitz-Birkenau young people held a moment of silence and an ode for the victims of the Holocaust in the presence of two survivors.
