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Thüringen and Survivor’s Graves

May 3, 2017 Published by: RF

The German state of Thürigen is the latest one who has moved to protect the graves of the Holocaust survivors. In Germany, if the family doesn’t pay, the graves are removed after a 30 years period. Now, the graves of Rroma and Sinti former Holocaust survivros will be preserved for posterity.
May they rest in peace!

– Thüringen schützt und pflegt Gräber von Sinti und Roma. In: Focus Online. 02.05.2017. http://www.focus.de/regional/erfurt/regierung-thueringen-schuetzt-und-pflegt-graeber-von-sinti-und-roma_id_7068819.html

Erfurt: Thüringen schützt und pflegt Gräber von Sinti und Roma

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Rroma Win in Sweden

May 3, 2017 Published by: RF

11 Rroma who filed a complaint against the police in Southern Sweden following the introduction of an illegal register of Rroma are being compensated by a Swedish court.
Well done!

– Court compensates Roma in Sweden. In: New Europe. 02.05.2017. https://www.neweurope.eu/article/court-compensates-roma-sweden/

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Romania and the Holocaust

May 3, 2017 Published by: RF

72 years after the end of World War Two, Romania has still not come to terms with its past regarding the Holocaust. Romania, an ally of Germany, deported many Rroma to Transnistria where many of them died of hunger and diseases.
While on paper, a law was enacted for the survivors of the holocaust, granting them a small pension, most Rroma do not receive it – for lack of papers, but basically out of discrimination.

– A decades-old paper war: how the Roma are fighting bureaucracy. In: New Stateman. 01.05.2017. http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2017/05/decades-old-paper-war-how-roma-are-fighting-bureaucracy