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
15.30 – 17.30 Panel 1: Shoah and the Genocide of the Roma and Sinti: Comparing the Incomparable?
Gerhard Baumgartner, Vienna (Chair) Slawomir Kapralski, Warsaw
Oliver von Mengersen, Heidelberg Karen Polak, Amsterdam
17.30 – 17.45 Pause
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, OECD ODIHR Warsaw (Chair) Rudolf Sarközi, Vienna
Michelle Kelso, Bukarest / Ann Harbor Agnes Daróczi, Budapest
Huub van Baar, Amsterdam (tbc)
21.30 Film The Forgotten Genocide. Europe’s Gypsies in World War II, written by Henriette Asséo, Idit Bloch and Juliette Jourdan
Friday, 09.11.2012 – Hotel Burgenland
9.00 – 9.30 Presentation of the new teaching material on the Genocide of the Roma and Sinti - Gerhard Baumgartner, Vienna
9.30 – 12.00 4 parallel workshops on the teaching material
9.00 – 12.00 Workshop 5, only for International Expert Group – continued in the afternoon (Karen Polak, Amsterdam)
12.00 – 12.30 Presentation of „Methodenhandbuch Antiziganismus“
im Auftrag des Markus End, Kerem Atasever, Berlin (tbc)
14.00 – 16.30 4 Workshops on new teaching material on Racism and Antisemitism "ein Mensch ist ein Mensch" Rassismus, Antisemitismus und sonst noch was... (A Human Being Is a Human Being: Racism, Antisemitism and More . . .)
Workshop 5 – only for International Expert Group (Continuation) Workshop 6 – only for teachers of CoE-program
16.30 – 17.15 Presentation of school projects 17.15 – 17.45 What’s new in _erinnern.at_?
Samstag, 10.11.2012
9.00 – 9.45 The Center of the Persecution of Austrian Roma: “Gypsy Camp Lackenbach”.
An introduction by Erika Thurner, Innsbruck (German) / Gerhard Baumgartner, Vienna (English)
10.30 – 12.00 “Gypsy Camp Lackenbach” /Roma Cemetary / Jewish Cemetary (Exkursion) With Gerhard Baumgartner and Erika Thurner
12.00 Busses to Vienna
Supported by:
Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research
