Advantages to Jews of Monopolizing the Term Holocaust: DEFINITIVE WORK. Holocaust Supremacy Slights All Non-Jewish Genocides. Example: Gypsies and Gypsy Genocide. Victim Reparations Favor Jews. Metache

The Roma Holocaust/Roma Genocide in Southeastern Europe, by Margareta Metache et al. 2022. Auschwitz Institute For the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, New York

Roma Holocaust Attempts to Be Heard, and To Break the Monopoly of the Jews’ Holocaust

From the beginning, various peoples (e. g, the Poles) have made a futile effort to have the term Holocaust include their sufferings. This debate goes on, with the Gypsy genocide being variously excluded from the term Holocaust and simultaneously included in the term.

THE POWER AND PRESTIGE OF THE VERY TERM HOLOCAUST: BACKED BY INTERNATIONAL POLICIES

What does it matter if the term Holocaust is restricted to Jews or if it is used more broadly? Plenty! And this goes beyond just the name recognition and the moral prestige that is inherent in the Holocaust brand. The Holocaust brand, as usually understood, enjoys expansive internationally recognized special rights not enjoyed by any other genocide. The authors write, “Narrowing the term Holocaust and the definitions of Holocaust denial and distortion to the Jewish victims would exclude the other categories of victims from protections against Holocaust denial and distortion, which have already been guaranteed by the UN and other intergovernmental body regulations; it would also exclude Roma and other victims from official efforts that aim to maintain the memory of the Holocaust, protect the remaining survivors, and repair the harm they experienced. The Roma Holocaust/Roma Genocide needs to be consistently included in the processes of Holocaust acknowledgment, memorialization, and history teaching to keep our moral promise of Never Again.” (p. 106. Emphasis in original).

THE TERM HOLOCAUST AS MONOPOLIZED BY THE JEWS

The authors first repeat the standard line in which Jews justifiably “own” the term Holocaust, “There is no consensus regarding the term that should be used to describe the mass atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi regime and their allies against the Roma and Sinti people in Europe. In fact, this is one of the most sensitive, normatively loaded, and controversial topics in political, institutional, and intergovernmental spaces. At the political and epistemic levels, there are several ongoing controversies regarding the use of the Holocaust terminology in relation to the Roma and Sinti victims. Some advocate against the inclusion of the Roma and Sinti experiences in the Holocaust framework, arguing that the drivers and methods of persecution, numbers, ideologies, conditions, and experiences of the Roma and Sinti differed from those of the Jewish victims.” (p. 5).

THE TERM HOLOCAUST–AS USUALLY DEFINED–ELEVATES THE JEWS TO A SPECIAL CLASS OF GENOCIDE VICTIMS

Not surprisingly, there is considerable resistance to expanding the term Holocaust to include the non-Jewish victims. The authors comment, “We also encountered cases when the commemoration of Roma victims of the Holocaust was disputed, compared to, and challenged by the commemoration of other Holocaust victims or other categories of atrocities at the national level. Thus, this type of distortion involves creating a hierarchy of victims and genocides based on the belief that the Roma Holocaust/Roma Genocide and the Roma victims were not as significant as other Holocaust victims and other genocides. Such claims trivialize and relativize the racial persecutions, deportations, massacres, and the Nazi and ally extermination policies implemented at the European and national levels to eliminate the Roma people. Such assertions stamp Roma victims as less worthy or worthless.” (p. 93). That’s just it! If it was not part of the Jewish-defined Holocaust, it was not that important.

SMUGGLING-IN THE GYPSIES UNDER THE RUBRIC OF THE HOLOCAUST

According to the authors of this work, the genocide of the Gypsies (and other non-Jews) remains in limbo. The authors write, “There is no consensus regarding the place of the Roma and Sinti victims in the Holocaust framework at the level of intergovernmental organizations and Holocaust-related institutions.” (p. 76).

However, the authors appear to come down on both sides of the issue.  While affirming that the Holocaust should refer only to Jews, they also do include the Gypsies in the term Holocaust, “We use Roma Holocaust as a shortened version to refer to the Roma victims of the Holocaust, not a separate Holocaust…” (p. 24).

HOLOCAUST SUPREMACY CAUSES THE MARGINALIZATION OF ALL NON-JEWISH GENOCIDES

The following quoted statements refer to the Gypsy genocide, but they are fully applicable to all the non-Jewish genocides (Including that of the Poles) at the hands of Nazi Germany:

“Roma and Sinti people have been largely overlooked in WWII memory, repair, and historiography. Roma and Sinti were not asked to testify in the Nuremberg Trials, were not mentioned in Adenauer’s celebrated 1951 apology or other symbolic acts of contrition, and were neglected by many compensation programs.” (p. 15).

“The history of Samudaripen/Porrajmos remains a peripheral theme in Holocaust and genocide studies.” (p. 4).

“The Roma Holocaust/Roma Genocide has often been treated as a peripheric theme in the processes and sites of Holocaust acknowledgment, memorialization, and commemoration, as well as in school curricula and textbooks.” (p. 103).

“The Roma Holocaust/Roma Genocide needs to be mainstreamed into processes of Holocaust acknowledgment, memorialization, and history teaching.” (p. 10).

SPECIAL GENOCIDE MEMORIAL DAYS FAVOR THE JEWS

The Jews get two special days (International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), and Yom Hashoah in April or May) to commemorate their tragedy, while most genocides get none. The Gypsies struggle to have their August 2 recognized, instead of seeing their genocide folded into the Jews’ Holocaust. The authors write,

“Similarly, in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Kosovo, there is no normative acknowledgment of August 2 or another significant national date regarding the Roma Holocaust/Roma Genocide or the Roma plight during WWII in the specific country. Yet, sometimes, the victims of the Roma Holocaust/Roma Genocide are mentioned on January 27 or other national or international commemorative days.” (p. 58).

REPARATIONS FOR GENOCIDE STRONGLY FAVOR THE JEWS

The following touches on just one of the built-in injustices of the Holocaust Industry, “The post-Holocaust reparations programs have established a standard in reparatory justice processes, leading scholars to conclude that they ‘have radically changed our understanding of reparations.’ Yet, the post-Holocaust reparations processes and programs have often neglected Roma, Afro-Germans, and LGBT people, among others.” (p. 56).

Full article here: https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2022/09/15/roma-holocaust-jews-holocaust-supremacy-slights-all-non-jewish-genocides-example-gypsies-and-gypsy-genocide-doublethink-on-who-owns-the-term-holocaust-reparations-favor-jews-metache/