1st candle: The forgotten Holocaust

Bluma Meinhardt and Roger Moreno

For the exhibition The Forgotten Holocaust in the library of Valkenburg, the compilers wrote:

A triptych.
1. The persecution of Jewish Valkenburgers.
2. The deportation of Sinti and other Romani.
3. I don’t talk about that.
We commemorate these victims in 42 stumbling stones.

Roger Moreno wrote the story, unknown to most of us, about the persecution of his people the Sinti and Roma. Later, Anjes Driessen opened our eyes with her story “Daar praat ik niet over” (I don’t talk about that) of her mother Mädie Franz, who survived Auschwitz as a 17-year-old girl.
Hence this triptych this exhibition. To keep remembering and never to forget.

See also The Forgotten Holocaust, Memorial to the Deportees. Bluma Meinhardt..

Images:

1. Memorial stone at the entrance to the Jewish section of the cemetery on the Cauberg in Valkenburg.
2. Book: Zoni, De vergeten Holocaust, mijn leven als Sinto, ondernemer en overlevende. (The Forgotten Holocaust, my life as a Sinto, entrepreneur and survivor.) So many horrific experiences and yet Zoni did not lose his faith in human beings.
   In the library
3. Book: Anjes Wolfs-Driessen “Daar praat ik niet over” (I don’t talk about that) – The story of Mädie Franz, a Sinteza (Sinti girl) who survived the war.
   In the library

| resistance in Valkenburg | genocide of the Jews in Limburg | genocide of the Romani in Limburg and elsewhere | Germans killed in action in Valkenburg-Houthem |