Author Archives: Roma Foundation

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Racism in the Czech Republic

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An interview with the Roma writer Michal Šamko. He published his first Roma-Czech poem at the end of the nineties in the magazine Mladý svět. He returned to it fully only after meeting the Romani writer Milena Hübschmannová, who made him write in Romanes as well. Since then, Michal Šamko (56) has published not only in the journal of Romani studies Romano džaniben, but also in the monthly magazine for world literature PLAV.

He says “They yelled ‘gypsy filth’ at me at school. What’s worse is that they scold my granddaughter in the same way.”

Sad.

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Slovenia: Roma Criminality

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Following the attack of two brothers by Roma in Škocja, Slovenia, protests against Roma criminality are increasing. The victims were invited were invited to an extraordinary meeting in Škocjan. They described what happened that day.

Bad for all.

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Babyn Yar

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82 years ago today, the massacre of Babyn Yar started. It had been preceded by the execution two days earlier of some Jewish and mentally ill patients two days earlier.

The Nazis killed mostly Jews, but also Roma, Russian POWs and many others. The Mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klyshko and the Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid homage to the victims.

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Slovenia, Roma, and News

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Some of the Slovenian press headlines: The Lopatec brothers from Dobrava near Škocjan were cleaning the Radulje ditch when a group of Roma from Dobruja attacked them and threatened them with weapons. When they later called the police, they attacked them too, the two brothers came to their aid, and one of them got hit in the head with a wheel.

No comments.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Brawl

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This is bad. A group of Roma from Lužianky brutally attacked three men, also Roma from Močenko. It happened in the parking lot in front of a department store in Nitra. They attacked with knives and even fired shots. Three men ended up in hospital. They allegedly fought over a 14-year-old girl, in whom the family of the attackers was interested.

The fight took place last week in the parking lot in front of the department store. Three men from Močenko were attacked by a group from Lužian women. “About 9-10 armed people jumped out after us, plus three or four women had the sprays.” said Stanislav Lakatoš, vajda Močenok in Romanes.

Looks like a fight between Vlach Roma.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia, Business, and Roma

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Marcela Tokošová, the director of a Slovak company called Kovotvar, restored the production cooperative on its feet ten years ago. She is nominated for the TREND Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 award  and employs many Roma.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland, and Roma

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A long-winded story. Roma in Limanowa, Poland, were evicted from their home. They wanted to buy a house in Laskowa using funds from the so-called Roma program. The residents organized a protest and collected 300 signatures, and the commune government intends to take into account the voice of the local community and not consent to the purchase.

News Eastern Europe Ukraine

Ukraine and Roma

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Unfortunately, another one of those (on both sides). Roma were arrested in Kharkiv region in Ukraine for having swindled pensioneers. They were arrested and will be tried.

The issue as usual is that this is depicted as an ethnic trait.

Bad.

News Eastern Europe Poland

Poland, the Holocaust, and Roma

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Alfreda ‘Nońcia’ Markowska with her daughter, Maria Majewska in Gorzów Wielkopolski, in April 2016 when she was turning 87 years old. She collected babies whose mothers had been slaughtered by Germans. She was still a teenager at that time and saved dozen of children.

Germany News Western Europe

Germany and Roma

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For tolerance and respect: Deutsche Bahn presents the first exhibition against antigypsyism in the Railways stations of Dresden, Wiesbaden, and Nuremberg.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovakia and Displaced People

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Roma in Telgárt have been living in military tents in makeshift conditions for more than two months following a fire in the Roma settlement there. When it rains, water flows inside them.

After the tragic night fire on July 20, more than a hundred people, including approximately sixty children, were left without a roof over their heads. One man died. After nine weeks, Roma families are still huddled in six military tents, which were provided as emergency accommodation by the Department of the Interior.

The situation has still not been resolved.

France News Western Europe

French Chronicle …

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Almost nothing this week about Roma in the French Press. An article about racism that mentions that in France, it is mainly directed at Roma and North Africans; repeated fires in a Roma camp near Paris; and finally, travellers camping outside designated areas near Metz.

News Eastern Europe Poland Ukraine

Poland and Roma Refugees

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Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska, with her foundation, tried for several months to find an apartment for a family of Roma refugees from Ukraine. No chance. – I never thought I would see such a moment – says the activist with regret. And he emphasizes that the Roma are treated worse than others, even though they are also fleeing from the war.

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungary and the Extreme Right

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A special two-hour long debate between LL junior (László Lesi), a well-known musician-performer and László Toroczkai, president of Mi Hazánk, a extreme right party in Hungary.

The use of by the party of Roma for political purposes, citing demographic issues, gypsy crime as a perceived or real concept were discussed. Of course, Trianon was also mentioned …

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungary, Roma, Health and Contraception

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An article about underprivileged youth in Hungary, about their health, their knowledge thereof, teenage pregnancies, and contraception.

Scary as most of the youngsters have a very limited knowledge of how their body works. Also, it seems that Hungary has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the EU. The article highlights, that it is not all Roma, and definitively not a Roma trait, but rather an issue of poverty and education.

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