{"id":5411,"global_id":"www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust?id=5411","global_id_lineage":["www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust?id=5411"],"author":"938","status":"publish","date":"2026-09-23 14:21:26","date_utc":"2026-09-23 18:21:26","modified":"2026-09-23 14:28:20","modified_utc":"2026-09-23 18:28:20","url":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/event\/oc-samudaripen\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/5411","title":"Samudaripen: The Romani Holocaust of WWII","description":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5414 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/09\/Petra-Headshot-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Petra Gelbart\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/09\/Petra-Headshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/09\/Petra-Headshot-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/09\/Petra-Headshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/09\/Petra-Headshot-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/09\/Petra-Headshot-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/09\/Petra-Headshot-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Petra Gelbart, a Ramapo professor, ethnomusicologist, and therapist, will speak about the Samudaripen (the genocide of Roma during the Second World War) and her experiences as a Romani scholar and activist in this semester&#8217;s course on the Holocaust taught by CHGS Director Jacob Ari Labendz.<\/p>\n<p>We will engage with a difficult past and explore the ongoing racism faced by Roma in their home countries, including (and entwined with) their decades-long struggle to have the history of their victimization and genocide acknowledged by the general public. 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