Category Archives: Germany

Germany News Eastern Europe News Western Europe Poland Slovakia

Auschwitz and Roma

Published by:

In connection with the upcoming Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day (August 2), the ethnographer, historian and currently advisor to the Slovak Minister of Justice in the field of human rights, Zuzana Kumanová stated that about 22,000 European Roma passed through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and about 19,000 of them never returned.

As usual, this is factually right, but effectively wrong. There were 22’000 REGISTERED Roma in Auschwitz. But by the same token, “only” roughly 300 thousand Jews. People who were immediately killed were not registered.

Germany News Western Europe

Dortmund: Festival

Published by:

Sinti and Roma belong to Dortmund – and the city will celebrate their culture from August 3 to 21, 2022 at Djelem Djelem. For the ninth time, the festival invites you to workshop, lectures and family celebrations.

Germany News Western Europe

Germany Commemorations

Published by:

Several cities in Germany are organising commemorations for the Holocaust Remembrance Day for Roma. For example Frankfurt, Augsburg, Darmstadt.

Germany News Western Europe

Germany and 2nd of August

Published by:

Germany Federal Council’s President Bodo Ramelow will be traveling to Poland on 2 August to mark the European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Roma. There he will take part in the international commemoration event at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and give a speech.

Germany News Western Europe

Celebration

Published by:

Celebration

The Research Centre for Antigypsyism at Heidelberg University has celebrated its fifth anniversary. The chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, said at the ceremony that the research centre made it clear how important it is to also deal with the phenomenon of antigypsyism at a scientific level.

Germany News Western Europe

Buchenwald: Vandals

Published by:

Buchenwald: Vandals

Trees planted to commemorates the victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp were cur down by vandals.

Bad.

Germany News Western Europe

Romani Rose

Published by:

Romani Rose

A movie on Romani Rose, Chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma where he speaks about his family.

Germany News Eastern Europe News Western Europe Ukraine

Germany, Ukraine, and Roma

Published by:

Germany, Ukraine, and Roma

The kind of articles on really doesn’t need. In the State of Thuringia, the refugees’ centres are full. But they also speak of “Roma clans”, “Roma extended families”, all the stereotypes.

Bad.

Germany News Eastern Europe News Western Europe Ukraine

Germany and Ukrainian Roma Refugees

Published by:

More and more municipalities in the German state of Thuringia are turning to the Thuringian State Association of Sinti and Roma for help when taking in refugees from the Ukraine. “We have been receiving calls for help from the authorities since the beginning of July,” said chairman Jens Hellmann on Tuesday when asked. It seems that since the beginning of the month, more and more Roma who have fled have come to Thuringia by bus. Many of them are illiterate, and there are also reservations among the local population. Since then, the association’s social workers and interpreters have been traveling to the respective locations and helping with translation or accommodation.

Germany News Western Europe

Germany, Police, and Roma

Published by:

Germany, Police, and Roma

Tiziano Lehmann was eleven when he was arrested by the police, hand-cuffed and racially insulted without any reason. The unusual thing about it: the Sinto boy reports the police – and wins in court. The story of a fairly common police scandal.

Germany News Western Europe

Bonn, Roma, and Holocaust

Published by:

Bonn, Roma, and Holocaust

The Bonn district council has repeatedly postponed the decision on the memorial plaque for the Sinti from Bonn who deported during National Socialism, which should be installed in front of the station. The State Association of German Sinti and Roma North Rhine-Westphalia criticizes the slow process.

Germany News Western Europe

Roma and Germany – A Story

Published by:

Radoslav Ganev came to Germany with his mother at the age of 9. They are Roma. But nobody should know it and it stayed that way for a long time. As a native Bulgarian and naturalized German, Radoslav Ganev finishes his high school diploma in Trier, studied political science in Bamberg and now works in the social sector in Munich. At the age of thirty, he decided to no longer hide his ethnic origins.

Germany News Western Europe

Romani Rose

Published by:

An interview and discussion with Romani Rose, the chairman of the German Council of Sinti and Roma.

Germany News Western Europe

Germany and Roma

Published by:

Germany and Roma

The antiziganism reporting and information center in Berlin started work on July 5th. With this, antiziganism is finally being monitored in Germany and incidents are being counted and documented. An important step, because surveys show again and again how widespread social rejection of Sinti and Roma is. An interview with dr. Guillermo Ruiz, the project manager of the registration and information centre and political officer of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma.

rroma.org
en_GBEN
de_DEDE fr_FRFR en_GBEN