Multimedia material

Documentaries and movies

Alexandre Fronty, Montreuil-Bellay, un camp tsigane oublié, 52 mins, coproduction LCP / Zoulou compagnie Production, supported by the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, 2012.

Tristan Lecoq and Georges Bensoussan, “Auschwitz-Birkenau dans le processus genocidaire”, by the Centre Régional de Documentation pédagogique de Renne (the Renne Regional Center for Pedagogical Documentation) 2012, a pedagogical tool designed for teachers, part of which is focusing on Gypsies and Roma.

1981: “Canta gitano” (Sing, Gypsy) Short film. France. Director: Tony Gatlif. 10 min. Languages: Spanish, German, French.
It depicts – through music and dance - the fate of Roma in the concentration camps.

1982: “Gypsyland, it doesn’t exist” (aka “Le clou volé: Les Gitans dans la Shoah”) Documentary. France and United Kingdom. Director: Ludi Boeken. 50 min.
The history of the Roma people’s persecution in Europe, and especially that by the Nazis.

1989: “The Forgotten Holocaust” Documentary. United Kingdom. Director: George Case. 50 min.
About the persecution and genocide of the European Roma. Some Roma survivors from Germany, Hungary, Austria, Poland, France and the Netherlands are interviewed about this topic.

1993: “Latcho Drom” (Good journey) Documentary. Director: Tony Gatlif. 103 min. Language: French.
About the history of the Roma, depicted through music and dance. There is a survivor who explains her life in Auschwitz.

1997: “Journal de Rivesaltes 1941-1942” (Journal of Rivesaltes 1941-1942) Documentary. Switzerland. Director: Jacqueline Veuve. 77 min. Language: French.
About Friedel Bohny-Reiter’s activities as a nurse in an accommodation centre for homeless people in the South of France.

1999: “Les oubliés de Montreuil-Bellay” (The forgotten people from Montreuil-Bellay) Documentary. France. Director: Abdelali Boutibi. 26 min.
About the internment camp for Roma in Anjou (France).

2002: “Swing” Feature film. France. Director: Tony Gatlif. 90 min.
A teenager discovers Roma culture, and especially music, in France. The Roma Holocaust is reflected in one song.

2003: “Route de Limoges” (Journey to Limoges) Documentary. France. Director: Raphaël Pillosio. 39 min.
About some Jewish and Roma people who were kept as internment camp prisoners.

2003: “Les Roms, la mémoire retrouvée” (Roma people, the recovered memory) Documentary. France. Directors: Benoît Califano and Laure Pradal. 57 min.
It depicts the history of the Roma people in the 20th century and the problems and prejudices they met after the Holocaust.

2004: “Trapas men lé” (\\"Ils nous ont attrapés”) (They caught us) Documentary. France. INSTEP Aquitaine. Language: French. 26 min.
About some internment camps for Roma in France. Some survivors and some experts are also interviewed.

2006: \"Un camp tzigane où il ferait bon vivre…\" (A Roma camp site where it could be nice to live...) Documentary. France. Director: Cédric Condom. 58 min.
About the history of an internment camp for Roma people in Arles. This camp was supposed to be an ideal one.

2009: “Des Français sans histoire” (The French without a history) Documentary. France. Director: Raphaël Pillosio. 84 min.
About the experiences of Travellers who were interned in special camps during World War II.

2009: \"Korkoro\" (“Liberté”)(“Freedom”) Feature film. France. Director: Tony Gatlif. 111 min. Language: French.
About the problems and the fate of a Roma family in Nazi-occupied France.

2010: “Juifs-Tsiganes, peut-on comparer?” Video. France. Director: Denis Peschanski for Akadem

2015: “Mémoires tsiganes, l’autre genocide” Documentary. France. Director: Juliette Jourdan, France 5, 76min.

2019: "J'aimerais tant que tu te souviennes" un hommage à la mémoire des déportés tziganes écrit par Joseph stimbach réalisé et mis en musique par Michael Patrac et interprété par Thierry Patrac et Mattéo Patrac.

Radio

The programme "Mémoires Vives. L'émission de radio de la Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah" (Living memoirs) broadcast interviews about the Roma Genocide, for instance H. Asséo's one on the 14 december 2008, with the title "Histoire et mémoire des Tsiganes" (Roma History and Remembrance).
 

Websites:

The Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (LDH) has a working group for issues related to Roma and Travellers. It offers news and information, for instance, about internment camps in France during the Second World War. One example is the website of LDH Toulon, under the heading “Histoire et colonies”.

The site of “Chemins de Mémoire” of the Government of France includes information and pictures about internment camps for Roma people in France.

"Une mémoire française. Les Tsiganes pendant la Seconde guerre mondiale, 1939-1946" [A French commemoration. The Roma during WWII, 1939-1946]