The new memorial for the Sinti victim of the Nazi genocide was inaugurated in Hamburg.
The 2023 Roma Spirit award nominated its laureates on Saturday (November 25) evening. They were announced at the National Theater in Košice. The prize was awarded by an expert jury in eight categories.
Šukar Dživipen from Banská Štiavnica won in the NGO category.
Zdravé regióny – a state organization won in the category Company and employer.
The city district of Košice – Luník IX won in the the Town and City category.
Paulína Slepčíková from Košice won in the in the Personality category.
The project Stories without Borders won in the Media category.
Barbora Botošová from Bratislava won the award in the Culture category.
Natália Gažiová from Košice won the Act of the Year category.
The special prize of the jury was awarded in memoriam to Daniela Hivešová Šilanova, a Slovak writer, dramaturg and screenwriter, co-founder of Romathan Roma Theatre.
According to the article, roughly 25’000 Roma from Ukraine fled to Poland, and these were overwhelmingly illiterate. This probably means they missed quite of few Roma who did not conform to the stereotypes.
A book on this exodus, called “The War of our Times” was published.
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