During World War II, members of the Rom and Sinti populations were rounded up by the Nazis, who sent them to concentration camps. It is estimated that five hundred thousand of them were killed by Nazi Germany and her allies. Karl Stojka wrote this to remind the world that the Rom and Sinti populations are as invincible as flowers.
“We Roma and Sinti are the flowers of this earth.
You can crush us,
you can tear us out of the earth, you can gas us,
you can burn us,
you can kill us -
but like flowers we keep coming back ...”
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor number Z-5742
“Wir Roma und Sinti sind die Blumen dieser Erde.
Man kann uns zertreten,
man kann uns aus der Erde reißen, man kann uns vergasen,
man kann uns verbrennen,
man kann uns erschlagen –
aber wie die Blumen kommen wir immer wieder...”
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor number Z-5742
Alberico Collina
“We Roma and Sinti are the flowers of this earth.
You can crush us,
you can tear us out of the earth, you can gas us,
you can burn us,
you can kill us -
but like flowers we keep coming back ...”
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor number Z-5742
“Wir Roma und Sinti sind die Blumen dieser Erde.
Man kann uns zertreten,
man kann uns aus der Erde reißen, man kann uns vergasen,
man kann uns verbrennen,
man kann uns erschlagen –
aber wie die Blumen kommen wir immer wieder...”
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor number Z-5742
Alberico Collina
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