During the Council Meeting of The Romani Elders in Berlin on June 1st, 2012 at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin Nicolae Gheorghe proposed, that The Romani Elders shall draft and disseminate a draft for a European Parliament Resolution on the recognition of the Roma Samudaripen/Holocaust.

Read the Draft Proposal for a European Parliament Resolution on the Recognition of the Roma Samudaripen/Holocaust.

The simplified version of this Draft Proposal was submitted by several Roma organizations and MEP Lívia Járóka to the European Parliament on August 2, 2012!

In the Draft Paper The Romani Elders propose the following recommendations (detail from the complete document):

1. On 27 January 2013 the Genocide of Roma to be commemorated across the EU member states as part of the United Nations Day of Commemoration of the Holocaust;

2. Members states should adopt national legislation for commemoration/remembrance of the Holocaust of Roma/ Samudaripen;

3. Calls on member states on the territories of which concentration camps existed to recognise and introduce in their Roma-oriented public policies actions which are meant to eliminate the treatment of Roma otherwise than as citizens in their own full rights; as moral and political responsibility;

4.Urges the member states and European Commission to take action for introducing the education of the Holocaust/Samudaripen of Roma into the campaigns for the 2013 EU Year of Active Citizenship, based on previous experience of the OSCE and Council of Europe;

5.To inaugurate the 2nd of August as the day of commemoration of the Roma Holocaust, following the initiative of Poland.  The European Parliament invites the member states and the neighbouring to establish the 2nd of August as national days of remembrance;

6. To identify and to protect the places of mass executions of Roma during the Nazi regime and its allies, to identify and protect the mass graves of Roma victims; to provide adequate financial resources for the identification and documentation of these places; to initiate and support research in archives and by collection of testimonies to identify the localities;

7. To invite the countries concerned to protect the graves of NS-persecutees whenever their graves are endangered to be removed because of local or national ending of the periods of rest (Ruhezeiten auf den Friedhöfen).  The cultural identity of successive generations of Sinti and Roma has been and still is characterized by the experience of the Holocaust left a lasting impression.  For the families the graves are particularly important as family memorials, since for the relatives murdered in the concentration and extermination camps, there are no graves;

8. To promote the dialogue and encounter between survivors of the Holocaust and young people.

9.To preserve, construct and extend memorial sites where Sinti and Roma were tortured and murdered.

10. To strengthen the involvement of Roma organizations in scientific discourses on the Holocaust, politics of memory and Holocaust-education.