Cesta z amnézie? Evropeizace a uznání romské minulosti a přítomnosti

In the course of the last two decades, various Romani activist and advocacy groups have increasingly tried to get recognized adequately the Romani Holocaust in Europe. However, despite the growing visibility of Romani monuments, exhibitions, commemorations, films and various testimonies of Romani Holocaust survivors, European audiences are still largely ignorant of the Romani Holocaust, at times even resistant to its recognition. Partly as a result of the often ineffective attempts for Holocaust recognition at local and national levels, these Romani groups and associations have lately "Europeanised" their activism and collaborated with partner and human rights organisations to "scale up" their call for recognition. Simultaneously, European institutions, those of the European Union in particular, have recently tried to assimilate the call for the recognition of the Romani Holocaust into their policies toward the Roma and their politics of European integration. This article focuses on the ongoing debate on the sites of two former Nazi concentration camps for the Roma in the Czech Republic. Both sites are occupied by businesses. Though Romani activists want to remove them to build decent memorials for an adequate recognition of the Romani Holocaust, their attempts have so far been unsuccessful. Taking this Czech Romani example, this article considers whether the recent Europeanisation of Romani activism for Holocaust remembrance could effectively challenge mechanisms that tend to marginalize European Romani groups and their histories.