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21/04/2015 - USC Shoah Foundation’s educational resource
Giving Memory a Future: The Sinti and Roma in Italy and Around the World
continues to make waves across Europe. Milena Santerini, professor and Member
of Parliament who helped create the resource, presented it at the Council of
Europe yesterday.
The Council of Europe’s Italian Delegation hosted a seminar
titled “The Roma Between Memory and Rights.” Santerini, who is part of the
Council’s Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, demonstrated the Giving
Memory a Future website and showed clips of Roma testimonies from the Visual
History Archive.
Other speakers at the seminar were Santino Spinelli,
professor of Romani language and culture at University of Chieti; author Ellie
Keen; Ramon Flores, a young Roma activist; and Ulrich Bunjes, special representative
of the Secretary General for Roma Issues.
At Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Santerini is
professor of intercultural pedagogy and has long organized educator training
programs that incorporate USC Shoah Foundation and the Visual History Archive.
She had the initial idea to create an educational resource about the Roma and
Sinti using USC Shoah Foundation testimony from her experience teaching about
the Holocaust. She thought the same methods of teaching the Jewish experience
of the Holocaust that have resulted in greater awareness of discrimination and
exclusion could also be applied to the Roma/Sinti, or “gypsy,” persecution
during the Holocaust, which is much less known.
The Italian Ministry of Education recently passed a decree to
make Giving Memory a Future available to all teachers and create an annual
contest for students about the Roma Genocide also using the resource.
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