A Monument to Forgetting: Roma Genocide and Memory in Croatia

In this episode, we look at a memorial erected in 1977 at the local graveyard near Hrastina in northern Croatia. The memorial is dedicated to a group of Roma and Sinti victims who were killed by the local Croatian fascists, Ustašas, on the night of 24-25 April 1945. This is among the last mass killings of Roma and Sinti in Europe during the Second World War, as the massacre took place only days before the end of the war. However, for decades, the events in Hrastina, as well as the monum...