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Initiatives of the civil society
More than 70 years have passed since the Genocide, but still numerous Roma victims lie in unmarked mass graves and experts consider public commemoration as very weak. In the same time based on different sources – archives and recollection of survivors’ memories – a list of locations has been composed from where Roma people were dragged away because of their ethnic origin. This contains over 600 settlements but until 2004 there have only been 50 memory plaques placed to commemorate the events. Roma Press Centre – RPC (Roma Sajtóközpont – RSK) handed in a petition to the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage in which they requested these settlements’ municipal governments to establish further monuments. After 60 years, it was 2004 that brought the biggest success in this matter: as a result of the RPC’s efforts six settlements placed memory plaques and due to the work of “Wesley János Lelkészképző Főiskola és az Evangéliumi Testvérközösség” (John Wesley Pastor Training College and Evangelical Community) another 32 settlements placed memory plaques to commemorate the Roma Genocide.
Non-governmental organisations and individual teachers undertake a number of practical initiatives. For example, the Lauder Javne Jewish Community School runs a project that enables its students to take an active role in making documentaries and doing video interviews with Holocaust eyewitnesses. Students' work is often published in a literary yearbook and is often further disseminated for educational purposes. Another example of a student project is the bilingual publication Eva Weinmann's Diary of 1941-1945, written by a teenage girl during the Holocaust. This publication is available on the Internet and in print. Students are also actively involved in the preparation of events for Hungary's Holocaust Memorial Day.
The "Nationalism Studies Program" of the Central European University in Budapest conducts research about the Samudaripen and offers lectures on the topic, for instance "Anthropological Approaches to Ethnicity, Racism and Nationalism – with special reference to Roms and Romany peoples" (by Michael Stewart) and "Sociological Approaches to Race and Ethnicity: The Roma in Central Europe" (by Júlia Szalai).