Remembering with music
“Oral histories and personal recollections have kept the memory of the Holocaust alive among Roma and Sinti, even in the absence of compassionate institutions.”
Dr. Petra Gelbert
Romani’s musical memories of the horrors of persecution were created in different European countries and at different times. Some musical testimonies such as “Phabol Lampa”, “Ausvicate hi kher baro” and “E Lauta bašalen thaj rovalen” were sung in the camps and the occupied countries and have been handed down until today. Other songs such as the militant “Djelem, djelem – Opre Roma” and the classical commemorative composition “A Requiem for Auschwitz” were conceived in memory of that time.
