Project

MemoryKeepers

Youth ambassadors raising awareness of the Roma Holocaust
Implementation: Start: 01/03/2025 – End: 28/02/2027
Description

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 partners’ 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 them awareness raising actions to be implemented by the young EU ambassadors networks.

The MemoryKeepers objectives are the following:
  • Enhance the skills of youth workers and staff of Roma/Pro-Roma youth and cultural organizations on the use of digital media, digital repositories, and museum archives, and arts-based techniques for the training of young Roma and non-Roma on the Roma Holocaust
  • Build the knowledge and skills of Roma and non-Roma youth (aged 18-30) on issues related to the Roma Holocaust, recording stories and preserving oral history, creating short films and digital storytelling, and acting as ambassadors for the contribution of Roma history, culture and identity to the EU history and values
  • Engage Roma and non-Roma youth in ensuring Holocaust remembrance and combating denial and distortion
  • Enhance digitization of oral histories and oral traditions of Roma communities
  • Increase public awareness and understanding of the Roma Holocaust as a manifestation of antigypsysm/anti-Roma discrimination
Who do we address?

The target groups of the MemoryKeepers project are:  

  • Roma youth and non-Roma youth
  • Roma/Pro-Roma youth and cultural organizations, and/or other CSOs supporting vulnerable groups/Roma
  • Roma communities
  • Relevant stakeholders and/or policymakers, such as local authorities, education authorities, Minorities Councils, national authorities etc.
  • Wider public
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