Youth ambassadors raising awareness of the Roma Holocaust

ongoing

MemoryKeepers project aims to promote awareness and memory, as well as to combat denial and distortion of the Roma Holocaust, among the Roma and wider populations in the EU member states of Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary and Romania, and the candidate countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. To this end, the project will establish a network of young Roma and non-Roma EU ambassadors in the partner countries, who will be trained and supported to implement awareness raising actions for ensuring remembrance, debunking myths and negative narratives that downplay historical evidence, and for highlighting the routes, diversity and significance of the events of the Roma Holocaust today, including the digitization of oral histories of the local Roma communities, the production of short films/videos about the Roma Holocaust, and the organization of various events. In order to provide effective support and training to young Roma Holocaust EU ambassadors, and to promote the sustainability and extension of this initiative, the project will also target youth workers and other staff of Roma/Pro-Roma youth and cultural organizations, and will build their skills on the use of digital media, digital repositories, and museum archives for educating young Roma and non-Roma adults through art, about the Roma Holocaust. Local Roma communities and wider populations, as well as policy-makers and stakeholders, will be the “recipients” (target) of the awareness raising actions to be implemented by the young EU ambassadors networks.