Although much is currently known about the Shoah – the murder of six million Jews – rather little attention is paid to the Porajmos – the murder of half a million of Roma and Sinti. The Porajmos is not only under exposed in history books, also the Sinti and Roma seem to remain silent over what has happened.
It is exactly this silence that Roger 'Moreno' Rathgeb aims to break with composing the 'Requiem for Auschwitz'.

On the eve of his tour around Europe, Roger Moreno is welcomed by Wereldpodium in Tilburg to talk about his work as a musician, his life as a Sinti in the South of Limburg, over his visit to Auschwitz, the silence of the Roma and Sinti whom survived the horrors of concentration camps, and of course about his requiem.

Also with theologian dr. Willem-Marie Speelman (UvT) who explores the background of the phenomena of requiems, and with historian dr. Huub van Baar (University of Amsterdam) who tells about the persecution of Sinti and Roma in times of the Nazi regime, as well as within contemporary Eastern Europe.
Clearly, the evening is filled with lots of music of Roger 'Moreno' Rathgeb.

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