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Reflections on Holocaust Education of the Roma Genocide in Romania

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One day in 2007, I sat in a tenth-grade classroom at a Romanian high school in Bucharest, where I had been invited to screen and discuss a documentary film I made on the genocide of Romanian Roma during WWII. From 1942–1944, Romania’s pro-Nazi government persecuted hundreds of thousands of Jews and tens of thousands of Roma, who were deported to camps in occupied Ukraine.

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  2. Loyola University Chicago, USA

    Noah W. Sobe

  3. School for International Training Graduate Institute, World Learning, USA

    Alla Korzh

  4. University of Toronto, Canada

    Serhiy Kovalchuk

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Kelso, M. (2017). Reflections on Holocaust Education of the Roma Genocide in Romania. In: Silova, I., Sobe, N.W., Korzh, A., Kovalchuk, S. (eds) Reimagining Utopias. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-011-0_6

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