{"id":8233,"date":"2025-08-06T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/?p=8233"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:32:07","slug":"in-memory-and-honor-prof-dr-dragoljub-ackovic-1944-2025-romdiem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/in-memory-and-honor-prof-dr-dragoljub-ackovic-1944-2025-romdiem\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory and Honor: Prof. Dr. Dragoljub Ackovi\u0107 (1944\u20132025) | Romdiem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On June 23, 2025, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/romdiem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ROMDIEM <\/a><\/strong>Project recorded what would become the final interview of one of the most important Roma intellectuals of our time\u2014Prof. Dr. Dragoljub Ackovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A scholar, historian, and relentless advocate for Roma truth, he spoke with clarity, urgency, and deep emotion about the Samudaripen\u2014the genocide of the Roma people during WWII.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy research shows that around 2 million Roma were k!lled, not 250,000 as Gadzhe researchers claim.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Ackovi\u0107 called for truth, recognition, and justice\u2014for a Roma Holocaust museum, for school textbooks, and for our voices to be heard in Europe\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His courage was unwavering. His legacy lives on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/romdiem.eu\/romdiem-interviews-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/romdiem.eu\/romdiem-interviews-events\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/POST-AUGUST-CUBE-2025-NEW-TEMPLATE-INSTA-SIZE-4-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/POST-AUGUST-CUBE-2025-NEW-TEMPLATE-INSTA-SIZE-4-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/POST-AUGUST-CUBE-2025-NEW-TEMPLATE-INSTA-SIZE-4-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/POST-AUGUST-CUBE-2025-NEW-TEMPLATE-INSTA-SIZE-4-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/POST-AUGUST-CUBE-2025-NEW-TEMPLATE-INSTA-SIZE-4.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 23, 2025, the ROMDIEM Project recorded what would become the final interview of one of the most important Roma intellectuals of our time\u2014Prof. Dr. Dragoljub Ackovi\u0107. A scholar, historian, and relentless advocate for Roma truth, he spoke with clarity, urgency, and deep emotion about the Samudaripen\u2014the genocide of the Roma people during WWII. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}