One-Day Symposium September 21, 2000  

This website contains brief biographies of the participants in addition to the audio files of the talks.

10-10:30 AM Session I: Opening Remarks

• ‘Welcoming Remarks’ – Paul Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• ‘Roma and Sinti History and Culture’ – Ian Hancock, Professor, University of Texas, Austin, and member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council

10:30 AM-12:30 PM Session II: Persecution in the Third Reich

• ‘Nazi Racial Policy and the Roma and Sinti’ – Wolfgang Wippermann, Professor, Friedrich Meinecke Institut für Neuere Geschichte der Freie Universität, Berlin

• ‘Nazi Persecution of the Roma and Sinti in the Third Reich’ – Michael Zimmermann, Lecturer, Ruhruniversität Bochum

• ‘Gypsies in Nazi Concentration Camps’ – Guenter Lewy, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• ‘History of Prejudice against Roma and Sinti in European Popular Culture’ – John Brown, Ph.D. candidate, University College, London

1:30-3:30 PM Session III: Persecution in the Axis and Occupied Countries

• ‘Roma Persecution in Romania’ – Radu Ioanid, Associate Director, International Programs Division, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• ‘Roma Persecution in Croatia’ – Mark Biondich, Lecturer, University of Toronto

• ‘Roma Persecution in France and Belgium' - Denis Peschanski, Professor, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

3:30-5 PM Session IV: Closing Presentations

• 'Romanian Memory of Roma Persecution' - Viorel Achim, Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow, CAHS (Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest)

• 'Current Trends and Needs in Research: Problems and Possibilities' - David Crowe, Professor, Elon College, and Ian Hancock

• 'Closing Remarks' - Raul Hilberg, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont, and Member, Academic Committee, United States Holocaust Memorial Council

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