Author Archives: Roma Foundation

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Khamoro

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Khamoro

The Khamoro World Roma Festival will begin next Sunday, May 24, with a concert on Střelecký Island in Prague. Until Saturday, May 30, the 28th year of the festival will offer seven concerts of various genres and about two dozen accompanying events. President Petr Pavel took over the patronage of this year’s edition.

News Eastern Europe Romania

Dumitru Miclescu

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Dumitru Miclescu

On May 15th, Dumitru Miclescu passed away at the age of 92.

He was born on March 8th, 1934, and was one of the last Roma Holocaust survivors from Romania who carried within him the living memory of deportation to Transnistria and the suffering endured by Roma families during the genocide of the Roma during the Holocaust.
In 2025, he adressed the world from the the podium of the United Nations General Assembly. Mr. Dumitru Miclescu stood there not only for himself, but for all those who never had the chance to speak. In his testimony, he spoke about the suffering of deportation to Transnistria, to the camps of Vapniarka, Tiraspol, Coronica, and Odessa, and about the way death accompanied Roma families from the very beginning of deportation.
May he rest in peace.

Te avel o drom angla leste puterdo i te avel i phuv lokhi!

Montenegro News Eastern Europe

Montenegro and Roma Representation

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Montenegro and Roma Representation

The Montenegrin Roma Council is asking for electoral reform in Montenegro to guarantee the representation of Roma in the parliament. The article here is very critical of this, stating that the Roma Council is acting as a satellite of the Democratic Socialist Party (DPS).

In any case, reserved seats fro minorities are not a solution.

Italy News Western Europe

Ferraris

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Ferraris

Two Ferraris worth over €200,000 ended up at the center of a complex scam involving changes of ownership and companies linked to the same family, apparently Sinti from the region. This is the case on which the Supreme Court ruled, upholding the seizure of one of the supercars and rejecting the appeal filed by a woman living in the Venice area.

Netherlands News Western Europe

Westerbork

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Westerbork

Against the backdrop of the commandant’s residence at Camp Westerbork, Theater Group Komyounit performs an impressive rendition of The Voice of a Guitar. Roma were deported from this camp.

News Eastern Europe Romania

Roma Slavery

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Roma Slavery

An article stating that Romania is intending to include an optional module in teaching history about the slavey of Roma in the country. Well, it will be optional, and they downplay it as “forced labour”.

Recently the Romanian church denied its involvement in the slavery, even though the church held Roma slaves.

France News Western Europe

French Chronicle …

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French Chronicle …

Not much this week in France about Roma. An article about the Roma anthem at the inauguration of the new Hungarian prime minister Peter Magyar; two Roma being judged for burglary; and a meeting in Paris to commemorate the genocide of the Roma.

Austria News Western Europe

Roma Resistance Day

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Roma Resistance Day

May 16th marks the 82nd anniversary of Romani Resistance Day. In 1944, Roma and Sinti resisted the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

What is not quite correct in the ORF Program is their statement that this uprising “saved thoudans of lives”. We simply do not know, and it did not prevent the destruction of the “Zigeunerlager” on August 2nd, 1944.

Germany News Western Europe

Hamburg: Commemoration

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Hamburg: Commemoration

On May 16, 1940, police officers arrested approximately 1,000 Sinti and Roma in Hamburg and Northern Germany. At the memorial site at Hanoverian Station in Lohsepark in HafenCity, Roma and Sinti will commemorate the fact that their ancestors were deported to concentration camps by the National Socialists 86 years ago on Saturday. A wreath will be laid around 2 p.m. With this annual day of remembrance, they also want to remember the survivors who still have to live with the consequences of this injustice.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Hodonín u Kunštátu Memorial

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Hodonín u Kunštátu Memorial

 A meeting of descendants of Roma and Sinti Holocaust survivors took place at the Hodonín u Kunštátu Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Moravia on Saturday, 16 May 2026 to honour the memory of the Roma and Sinti victims of Nazism. The event was organized by the Association of Roma and Sinti in the Czech Republic together with the Brno Christian Aid Association.

Czech Republic News Eastern Europe

Podcast

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Podcast

In the twenty-third episode of the SODAcast podcast, its authors Zdeněk Ryšavý and Patrik Banga return to the housing case of Minister for Regional Development Zuzana Mrázová, the debate on the Agency for Social Inclusion, the May Day march against fascism and the vocabulary of some politicians. They also discuss the Sudeten Germans’ congress in Brno and the violence of some football fans.

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungarian Roma Anthem

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Hungarian Roma Anthem

Young, mostly Roma, members of the Sugo Tambura band realised their dream on Saturday by performing the Roma hymn at Hungary’s parliament. The new prime minister, Péter Magyar, kept the promise he made to the children when he visited their village on the campaign trail. Roma rights campaigners have seized the moment, calling on the new government to ensure that the symbolism translates into real change.

This is not the most widely accepted Roma anthem, as that one is Djelem Djelem.

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Khamoro Festival: Ma bistrass! – Against Forgetting!

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Khamoro Festival: Ma bistrass! – Against Forgetting!

What contribution can art and culture make to remembering the genocide of the Roma and Sinti? This question will be addressed in the discussion in the context of the exhibition of the same name.

This collaborative event between the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) and the Goethe-Institut brings together German and Czech stakeholders from civil society and the cultural sector, inviting them to reflect, discuss, and develop new perspectives for an inclusive and future-oriented culture of remembrance. The discussion takes place in conjunction with the photography exhibition of the same name, which will be on display on Kampa Island in Prague from May 27 to June 10.

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Alexander Daško

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Alexander Daško

Government Plenipotentiary for Roma Communities Alexander Daško has rejected calls from the opposition movement Progressive Slovakia to resign. He claims that he has achieved concrete results in Roma communities during his almost two years in office and sees no reason to leave.

Daško responded mainly to PS’s accusations of a possible conflict of interest in allocating subsidies to the civic association Lavuta, which is associated with his family and is currently led by his wife. According to him, however, the funds did not come from the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Roma Communities.

Bulgaria Europe News Eastern Europe

Bulgaria Anti-Roma Rhetoric

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Bulgaria Anti-Roma Rhetoric

The European Court of Human Rights sided with Roma activists and journalists who argued national courts treated racist political rhetoric too narrowly while ignoring its wider impact on an entire minority community.

News Western Europe United Kingdom

Appleby Horse Fair

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Appleby Horse Fair

Less than a month before the beginning of the largest horse fair in the UK in Appleby on June 4th, the Gypsy, Traveller and Roma representative, Billy Welch, appleas to them not to come too early to the fair.

Bosnia News Eastern Europe

Bosnia and Hercegovina

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Bosnia and Hercegovina

An interesting article stating that the younger generation in Bosnia and Hercegovina is asking for a change in the country, and for stopping the ethnic divide. This ethnic divide is particularly bad for minorities, Roma, Jews, Turks, who de-facto are not represented and are nowhere at home.

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