Daily Archives: April 20, 2022

There is a bitter saying about the hospitality that the Polish government boasts in the world: everyone helps the Ukrainians, and the Roma help the Roma.

In brief, the Poles do not want them. At the end of March, when the war was already a month old, one of the volunteers said she called the voivode’s helpline to place a group of Ukrainian Roma in a refugee centre. She heard: “Gypsies have lice and we don’t take them.”

• Cyganów nie bierzemy? Ukraińscy Romowie, uchodźcy gorszego sortu. In: Polytika. 19.04.2022. https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/spoleczenstwo/2162527,1,cyganow-nie-bierzemy-ukrainscy-romowie-uchodzcy-gorszego-sortu.read