{"id":9087,"date":"2025-11-27T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:12:19","slug":"romdiem-voices-milka-kraljevic-what-remains-of-history-when-we-dont-teach-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/romdiem-voices-milka-kraljevic-what-remains-of-history-when-we-dont-teach-it\/","title":{"rendered":"ROMDIEM Voices: Milka Kraljevi\u0107 &#8211; What remains of history when we don\u2019t teach it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Within the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/romdiem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ROMDIEM <\/a><\/strong>framework, <strong>Milka Kraljevi\u0107,<\/strong> president of the Association of War Disabled Veterans, speaks about the oblivion that covers the experiences and sacrifices of Roma people in Serbia. Through the story of her husband, Gojko Kraljevi\u0107 \u2014 a fighter of the 6th Lika Brigade who took part in the little-known operation to clear Nazi saboteurs from Belgrade\u2019s sewer network \u2014 she highlights how many pieces of history remain hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her most urgent message concerns the Roma Holocaust: it is missing from school textbooks, there are no easily accessible documentaries or books, and Roma fighters and victims almost never appear in public narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRoma are invisible, but they should be visible \u2014 they gave their lives like everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milka warns that young people have nowhere to learn these histories, while witnesses are disappearing. She calls for educational reform, teacher training, regular historical programming, and visits to places of memory such as \u0160umarice, so that the truth can be preserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t teach children from an early age, I don\u2019t know how our history has survived until now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her testimony reminds us: memory is a responsibility \u2014 and forgetting is a choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn more about the project here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/romdiem.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/romdiem.eu\/<\/a><\/strong><\/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\/11\/ROMDIEM-SERBIA-INTERVIEWS-1-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ROMDIEM-SERBIA-INTERVIEWS-1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ROMDIEM-SERBIA-INTERVIEWS-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ROMDIEM-SERBIA-INTERVIEWS-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ROMDIEM-SERBIA-INTERVIEWS-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the ROMDIEM framework, Milka Kraljevi\u0107, president of the Association of War Disabled Veterans, speaks about the oblivion that covers the experiences and sacrifices of Roma people in Serbia. Through the story of her husband, Gojko Kraljevi\u0107 \u2014 a fighter of the 6th Lika Brigade who took part in the little-known operation to clear Nazi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9083,"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\/9087"}],"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=9087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9088,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions\/9088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}