The memorial to the victims of the national socialism of the peoples of Sinti and Roma is a monument in Berlin dedicated to 200,000 - 500,000 victims of the Gypsy genocide in Europe [1] . The author of the project is Dani Karavan.
Memorial Design
The monument is located on Simonsweg in Tiergarten.
It is a dark - "infinitely deep" - swimming pool with a triangular stone in the center: badges that the prisoners of the concentration camps were obliged to wear. Every day flowers are laid on the stone, which according to the author's idea should become “at the same time a symbol of life, sadness and memory”. Especially for the memorial, Romeo Franz wrote music that plays here all day. And along the edge of the pool, lines from the Auschwitz poem by the Gypsy poet Santino Spinelli are engraved. Around, on the stone tiles - the names of concentration camps.
History
The creation of a memorial dedicated to the victims of the gypsy genocide by the Nazis is the result of the demands of the Sinti and Roma Representative Office in Germany and the German Sinti Alliance. Already after the government approved the project in 1992, disputes over the location and design of the monument began. Initially, the memorial was supposed to be installed in the Marzahn area - it was there that the slums where the Roma had lived since 1936 were located. However, by 2001 it was decided to establish it in the Tiergarten, close to the memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. Angela Merkel was opened on October 24, 2012.