Faces which should never be forgotten. The exhibition Ma Bistrass! – Lest We Forget! brings us powerful portraits of Romani and Sinti people who survived Nazi persecution. The project was produced under the direction of the internationally-recognized photographer Luigi Toscano, holder of the honorary title of Artist for Peace from UNESCO, with the support of Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility, and Future (EVZ). Toscano traveled through Central and Eastern Europe to find the last living Romani and Sinti witnesses to the Holocaust. He captured their stories through interviews and large-format photography. To see their faces is to look into the eyes of people who survived the horrors of the Second World War. The exhibition does not just commemorate these forgotten victims of Nazism, therefore, but also raises the subject of the biases and discrimination faced by Romani and Sinti people to this day. The exhibition is part of the international project “Lest We Forget”, which has already been seen by millions of visitors worldwide. 

Auspices for the exhibition have been granted by the Mayor of the Prague 1 Municipal Department, Terezie Radoměřská, and the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague, Peter Reuss.