 Czech President opens “A Vanished World” 4. 9. 2007
On Wednesday, 5 September 2007, Czech President Václav Klaus will open an exhibit entitled “A Vanished World” at the National Gallery’s Veletržní palác in Prague.
VPORH president Čeněk Růžička says: “Today the history of the Roma and Sinti is still either unknown or grossly misrepresented. Our people are subjected to stigmatization, which means the rest of the population and its governing bodies determine what is thought of the Roma and Sinti. This exhibition, however, is unique in that it shows how we view ourselves.”
The exhibit was created by the Committee for the Redress of the Romani Holocaust (VPORH) in collaboration with the National Gallery in Prague, the Czech Ministry of Culture, the Czech German Fund for the Future, the City of Prague and other partners. It will take place under the auspices of the President of the Czech Republic and the Mayor of Prague. National Gallery Director Milan Knižák, representatives of Roma and Sinti from abroad, and many others have promised to attend.
This unique photographic exhibit represents the centuries of history of the indigenous Roma and Sinti in the Czech lands, the Holocaust, and their fate. A significant part of the exhibit is comprised of unique pre-war photographs from family archives, which represent the real lives of these people to the public for the first time. The exhibit also covers events in the Nazi concentration camp of Lety u Písku.
This exhibit will be the first time the public will have the opportunity to see a drawing made by a Czech Sinto directly in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp which he managed to smuggle back home despite harsh censorship. The drawing is an encoded depiction of the genocide of the Roma and Sinti and is the only one in the world to have been preserved. It will be introduced at the exhibit by Anita Francková of the Jewish Museum in Prague, who was herself formerly imprisoned at Auschwitz.
VPORH president Čeněk Růžička
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