2 August 2021
Adrian-Nicolae Furtuna
Rom and Historian at the University of Bucharest
Statement on the occasion of 2 August 2021, Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma
Adrian-Nicolae Furtuna is a Romanian Historian. His main field of work is the Genocide of the Roma in Transnistria. Among other works he published:
Why they don’t cry? … Roma Holocaust an its true story. Deportation of the Roma in Transnistria: testimonies, studies, documents, Amare Rromentza, 2010; Social Representation of the Roma Deportations to Transnistria, Holocaust, Study & Research / Holocaust. Studii si Cercetari, 2012; and the documentary “The rudari: them contributions in the Romanian space”.
He is also the director of the Cultural and Social Research Center “Romane Rodimata”.
Statements 2021
Romani Rose
Chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma
Katarina Barley
Vice President of the European Parliament
Helena Dalli
European Commissioner for Equality
Claudia Roth
Vice President of the German Bundestag
Paul Blokhuis
Dutch State Secretary Paul Blokhuis
Chris J. Lazaris
Amb. Chris J. Lazaris, IHRA Chairman
Fernand des Varennes
UN Special Rapporteur UN minorities
Anna-Nicole Heinrich
President of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)
Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada
Roman Kwiatkowski
Chairman of the Association of Roma in Poland
Erich Schneeberger
Deputy Chairman of the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma and Chairman of the Association of German Sinti and Roma
Timea Junghaus
Executive Director
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC)
Adam Strauß
Chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma in Hesse
Manon Aubry
Manon Aubry, MEP
Adrian-Nicolae Furtuna
Historian at the University of Bucharest
Philomena Franz
Holocaust Survivor
Angelina Kappler
German former Weinkönigin
Marian Kalwary
Chairman of the Association of Jews,
Survivors and Victims of the Second World War
Piotr Gliński
First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland
Izabela Tiberiade
Young Activist from Sweden
Ursula Krechel
Writer
Marija Pejčinović Burić
Secretary-General of the Council of Europe
Klaus Iohannis
President of Romania