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 Guest lecturer Leita Kaldi will speak about the Roma (Gypsies) who were classified by the Nazis as racially inferior and were deported from Germany and its occupied territories to ghettos in German-occupied Poland where, along with the Jews, they suffered from hunger, deplorable living conditions, disease and forced labor.
Kaldi is a former United Nations staffer who joined the Peace Corps and served in Senegal from 1993 through 1996. She is a lecturer and writer/editor of numerous magazine and newspaper articles about Roma (Gypsies); she also published the international newsletter, Romania, distributed to the global network of Roma. The lecture is part of the Pardoll Family Lecture Series. An estimated 220,000 to 500,000, around 25% of European Roma, were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmno, Treblinka and other camps. Some of the prisoners in the “Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz were subjected to the pseudo-medical experiments of Dr. Joseph Mengele. December 16, 2009 from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm in the Kanes’s Furniture Hall on the Museum’s 3rd floor. Event admission is $15. Teachers and Florida Holocaust Museum members are free. Seating is limited. RSVP is required by Dec. 14th ; contact the Education Department, (727) 820-8100, ext. 241. Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and student groups and AAA members. Admission is free to those serving in the Military, FHM members and children 6 and under. Museum hours are 10 am – 5 pm, Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 pm. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or visit the Museum’s web-site, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. The Florida Holocaust Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The Museum is dedicated to teaching members of all races and cultures to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides
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