The Genocide of the Roma and Sinti New Teaching Materials
International Conference / 11th Austrian Central Seminar Eisenstadt, 8. – 10. November 2012, Hotel Burgenland
Thursday, 08.11.2012 – Wirtschaftskammer Eisenstadt
15.00 Opening
Martina Maschke (Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture), Evelina Merhaut (Austrian National Funds), Karen Polak (Anne Frank Haus Amsterdam), Claude Singer (Memorial de la Shoah Paris), Werner Dreier (_erinnern.at_) 15.30 – 17.30 Panel 1
Shoah and the Genocide of the Roma and Sinti: Comparing the Incomparable?
Gernot Haupt, Klagenfurt (Chair) Slawomir Kapralski, Warsaw Oliver von Mengersen, Heidelberg Karen Polak, Amsterdam
17.30 – 18.00 Break 17.45 – 19.45 Panel 2
The Roma and Sinti: Forgotten Victims of the Compensation Process after 1945 – Forgotten Victims of the Transition Process after 1989
Mirjam Karoly, OSCE ODIHR Warsaw (Chair) Rudolf Sarközi, Vienna
Julia von dem Knesebeck, Munich Agnes Daróczi, Budapest
Gerhard Baumgartner, Vienna 20.00 Dinner Hotel Burgenland
Friday, 09.11.2012 – Hotel Burgenland 9.00 – 9.30
Room Burgenland
1st floor
Presentation of the new teaching material on the Genocide of the Roma and Sinti - Gerhard Baumgartner, Vienna (German)
9.30 – 12.00 4 parallel workshops on the teaching material (German) Gerhard Baumgartner, Vienna
Oliver von Mengersen, Heidelberg Eva Kovacs, Budapest
Barbara Tiefenbacher, Graz and Herbert Brettl, Halbturn 9.00 – 12.00
Salon 1
Panorama floor
Workshop 5
(only for International Expert Group – continued in the afternoon) Karen Polak, Amsterdam
12.00 – 12.30 Salon 1
Panorama floor
Presentation of handbook on Antiziganism
(“Antiziganismus erkennen, benennen, entgegenwirken”) Markus End, Berlin
im Auftrag des 12.30 – 13.00
Room Burgenland
1st floor
"Teaching Remembrance – European vision and contribution"
Aurora Ailincai (Council of Europe)
13.00 Lunch Hotel Burgenland
14.30 – 15.45 4 Workshops on new teaching material on Racism and Antisemitism (German)
"ein Mensch ist ein Mensch" Rassismus, Antisemitismus und sonst noch was...
(A Human Being Is a Human Being: Racism, Antisemitism and More…) 14.30 – 18.00
Salon 1
Panorama floor
Workshop 5
Only for International Expert Group (Continuation) 14.30 – 16.30
Salon 2
Panorama floor
Workshop 6
Analyzing our attitudes;
to explore and to learn forms of covered racism regarding public education Ferenc Arató, Pécs (CoE)
16.15 – 16.45 Room
Burgenland
1st floor
MRI HISTORIJA Lebensgeschichten burgenländischer Roma (German) Emmerich Gärtner-Horvath, Kleinbachselten
16.45 – 17.30 Presentation of school projects (German) 17.30 – 18.00 What’s new in _erinnern.at_? (German) 18.00 Dinner Hotel Burgenland
20.00 Room Burgenland
1st floor
Film “Meine Zigeunermutter”and “Ein Lied, dessen Worte ich längst vergessen habe...”
talk with director Therese Rani/Lilly Habelsberger (in German) 20.00
Room Eisenstadt 1st floor
Film „The Forgotten Genocide“ Europe’s Gypsies in World War II. Directed by Juliette Jourdan and Idit Bloch (English)
Saturday, 10.11.2012 – Hotel Burgenland
Please check out before 9.00! You can deposit your luggage near the reception desk.
The busses for the excursion will leave at 10.00 from Hotel Burgenland 9.00 – 9.45
R: Eisenstadt 1st floor
“Gypsy Camp Lackenbach” The Center of the Persecution of Austrian Roma An introduction by Gerhard Baumgartner, Vienna (English)
10.00 – 12.00 “Gypsy Camp Lackenbach” /Roma Cemetery / Jewish Cemetery (Excursion) with Gerhard Baumgartner and Herbert Brettl
12.00 Busses to Vienna; Arrival at Vienna Westbahnhof 13.30 Supported by:
Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research
