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4 September 1942: “Give me your children”

Featuring a reading by actor Tobias Menzies, this post looks at Jewish leader Chaim Rumkowski’s “Give me your children” speech, in which he asks the inhabitants of the Łódź ghetto to hand over their children for deportation in a bid to save the ghetto. Content warning.

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2 August 1944: Liquidation of the ‘Gypsy’ camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Gypsy (Sinti and Roma) Deportation , A young woman with child in a camp during an investigation conducted by the Racial Hygiene Research Centre at the Reich Bureau for Health at the Reichsgesundheitsamt (RHF). 1938. This research provided the pseudo-scientific basis for the extermination and forced sterilization of thousands of Sinti and Roma. After completion of the research deportations to Poland started. Germany. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

The launch article for “Play for the Day” outlines the history of the Porrajmos and looks at examples of recent plays about it – as well as probing contemporary attitudes towards Roma communities.