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Thread #170145   Message #4163525
Posted By: Felipa
25-Jan-23 - 04:20 PM
Thread Name: Any August Songs?
Subject: RE: Any August Songs?
The Porrajmos, or Porajmos (translated 'the Devouring') is the term used to describe the Nazi genocide of Europe's Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) population. While these travelling people are included among the victims of genocide who are commemorated in the International Holocaust Memorial Day (27 Jan, beginning of the liberation of Auschwitz), 2 AUGUST is the European Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma

"On 2 August, we commemorate the last 4,300 Sinti and Roma in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, who were murdered by the SS on that night in 1944 despite their fierce resistance. In memory of all 500,000 Sinti and Roma murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe, the European Parliament declared this date the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma in 2015."

Mudcat thread Lyr Req: Rom Song about Holocaust has references to Aušvits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ5yItOCSEM
and https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/collections-highlights/music-of-the-holocaust-highlights-from-the-collection/music-of-the-holocaust/auschwitz

and lyrics in French, LES BOHEMIENS by Tony Gatlif and Delphine Mantoulet (Sung by Catherine Ringer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B6fMZbtXFk

and lyrics in English, Your New Saint by Larry (Lorcan) Otway

Link to YOUR NEW SAINT by Lorcan Otway on MUDCAT Thread, Songs in English about the Spanish Civil War    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=128093#saint:~:text=Subject%3A%20Lyr%20Add%3A%20THE%20NEW%20SAINT%20(Lorcan%20Otway)%0AFr