As many as 100 Roma elderly people born in 1945, who were victims of the Holocaust and live in Moldova, will receive humanitarian assistance in the form of food parcels, medicines, clothes and footwear. According to the National Roma Center, the list of beneficiaries will be compiled with the assistance of community mediators and volunteers of the Center, who know the situation due to the visits they make periodically to the domiciles of these persons, IPN reports.
The aid will be distributed in the course of March within the project “Confidence and future for Roma survivors, victims of the Holocaust” that is financed by the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”.
As part of this project, the National Roma Center will stage a number of activities to raise the young generation’s awareness of the effects of the Holocaust and to fight negative stereotypes concerning the Romany people.
