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Graves of Holocaust Survivors

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The Federal government and the Regions in Germany have finally promised to retain the graves of Rroma Holocaust survivors. Normally, unless the family pays, these graves are re-used after a 25 years period.
May these people rest in peace and eternity.

– Gräber verfolgter Sinti und Roma können erhalten bleiben – damit die Erinnerung an den Porajmos weiterlebt. In: Bundespresseportal. 20.12.2016. http://www.bundespresseportal.de/hessen/10-hessen/graeber-verfolgter-sinti-und-roma-koennen-erhalten-bleiben-damit-die-erinnerung-an-den-porajmos-weiterlebt.html [link-preview url=”http://www.bundespresseportal.de/hessen/10-hessen/graeber-verfolgter-sinti-und-roma-koennen-erhalten-bleiben-damit-die-erinnerung-an-den-porajmos-weiterlebt.html”]

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Berlin, the Subway, and Rroma

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The person who kicked a young woman down the stairs in Berlin has been identified. He is unfortunately a Rrom from Bulgaria. He is definitively a criminal, and deserves a penalty, but it seems that the papers are more concerned about his ethnicity rather than the facts.
BAD.

– PICTURED: Man wanted for booting woman down underground train station stairs. In: Daily Stars. 15.12.2016. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/570651/man-kicking-woman-down-stairs-wanted-berlin-germany-metro-train-station [link-preview url=”http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/570651/man-kicking-woman-down-stairs-wanted-berlin-germany-metro-train-station”]

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Hungarian Minister Balog gets a Price in Germany

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Zoltan Balog, the Hungarian Minister of Human Resources, was awarded the Rainer-Hildebrandt-medal for human rights. YES, you read it, for human rights. He who advocates the SEGREGATION of Rroma in schools, and whose positions on minorities and migrants are far from any rights…
SHAME for this.

– Rechte für Menschenrechte. In: TAZ. 15.12.2016. http://www.taz.de/!5363976/ [link-preview url=”http://www.taz.de/!5363976/”]

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Germany: More against AfD

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The German Jewish Central Council is calling for more engagement against the AfD, a new German party who is definitively not pro minorities and migrants. Rroma are amongst its targets.
We can only agree with this statement.

– Jüdischer Zentralrat fordert mehr Engagement gegen AfD. In: Zeit Online. 08.12.2016. http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2016-12/rechtspopulismus-juedischer-zentralrat-afd-josef-schuster [link-preview url=”http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2016-12/rechtspopulismus-juedischer-zentralrat-afd-josef-schuster”]

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Roma Journeys

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An exhibition of Joakim Eskildsen’s work on Rroma, “Roma Journeys” in Berlin. If you haven’t seen this work, or his book, go!
He is one of the rare photographers who, while taking pictures in the midst of poverty and difficult situations, manages to show joy and a sparkle.

– Joakim Eskildsen’s ‘The Roma Journeys’ at Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin. In: BlouinArtInfo. 26.11.2016. http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1730685/joakim-eskildsens-the-roma-journeys-at-gallery-taik-persons [link-preview url=”http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1730685/joakim-eskildsens-the-roma-journeys-at-gallery-taik-persons”]

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Germany, Rap, and Rroma

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A review of the last Album from the German Rapper Sido. He recently acknowledged that he is Rrom – but calles himself “Zigeuner” and a sentence in one of his songs “Meine Leute haben’s nicht so leicht, also wenn du nicht drauf aufpasst, ist es meins.” saying “my people don’t have it easy, so if you don’t pay attention to it, it is mine” is deemed more than controversial, as it uses the old stereotype of theft and Rroma.

– ‘Das goldene Album’: Sido startet Authentizitäts-Offensive. In: ViP. 25.11.2016. http://www.vip.de/cms/das-goldene-album-sido-startet-authentizitaets-offensive-4037961.html [link-preview url=”http://www.vip.de/cms/das-goldene-album-sido-startet-authentizitaets-offensive-4037961.html”]

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Czech Republic: Germany Will Pay

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Germany has agreed to compensate the Czech Rroma who survived the Holocaust. Good, but it will not ruin Germany: 71 years after the end of the War, not many are still alive. And anyhow not many survived in the Czech lands.
A short apology from the Czech would be nice, as they deported the Rroma themselves, in 1941.

– Nemecko odškodní českých Rómov za holocaust. In: TA3.20.11.2016. http://www.ta3.com/clanok/1094728/nemecko-odskodni-ceskych-romov-za-holokaust.html [link-preview url=”http://www.ta3.com/clanok/1094728/nemecko-odskodni-ceskych-romov-za-holokaust.html”]

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No Safe Countries for Rroma

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A long article on the so-called “safe countries” and their impact on Rroma seeking asylum in Germany and in neighbouring countries. There is a petition on this topic launched by a German Rroma organisation called Bundes Roma Verband e.V.
SUPPORT!

– Für Roma gibt es keine sicheren Herkunftsstaaten. In: MiGazin. 25.11.2016. http://www.migazin.de/2016/11/25/nicht-roma-verband-abschiebestopp-balkan/ [link-preview url=”http://www.migazin.de/2016/11/25/nicht-roma-verband-abschiebestopp-balkan/”]

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Alt-Right and Germany

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The Alt-Right based movements are gaining ground in Germany. And Minorities, especially Rroma are on the wrong side of this movement.
Bad.

– ‘New right’ views gain popularity in German society – research. In: MO4CH. 23.11.2016. http://www.mo4ch.com/new-right-views-gain-popularity-in-german-society-research-2/ [link-preview url=”http://www.mo4ch.com/new-right-views-gain-popularity-in-german-society-research-2/”]

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Sign !

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A petition for Rroma to stay in Germany. Please act!

– Hier ist jetzt die englische Version der Petition -bitte breit verteilen und bitte unterschreiben! Now also in English – please spread widely and sign! In: Bundes Roma Verband. http://www.bundesromaverband.de/hier-ist-jetzt-die-englische-version-der-petition-bitte-breit-verteilen-und-bitte-unterschreiben-now-also-in-english-please-spread-widely-and-sign/ [link-preview url=”http://www.bundesromaverband.de/hier-ist-jetzt-die-englische-version-der-petition-bitte-breit-verteilen-und-bitte-unterschreiben-now-also-in-english-please-spread-widely-and-sign/”]

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UK: More and More Travellers in the Pentecostal Church

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An article about the huge impact of the Pentecostal church among Rroma and Travellers in the UK. This reflects the success of this church in France, Switzerland and to a lesser extend in Germany, but which definitively has a negative impact on Rroma tradition and customs, as these are superseded by church views. And this is not about fortune telling …

– How Gypsies have moved from fortune-telling to fervent Christianity. In: BBC News. 20.11.2016. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38016090 [link-preview url=”http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38016090″]

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Germany: Stumbling Stones for Rroma

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The first stumbling stones –(Stolpersteine), small stones embedded in the pavement reminding the people who lived in a place and died in the Holocaust were inaugurated for Rroma and Sinti victims in Halle.

– Erste Stolpersteine für Sinti in Halle. In: MDR Sachsen-Anhalt. 17.11.2016. http://www.mdr.de/sachsen-anhalt/halle/stolpersteine-sinti-roma-100.html [link-preview url=”http://www.mdr.de/sachsen-anhalt/halle/stolpersteine-sinti-roma-100.html”]

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An Article on Rroma Holocaust

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The article is correct on the Holocaust and the persecution of Rroma in Germany by the Nazis, but on Rroma itself, the author has obviously no idea. He speaks of two main “tribes”, the Rroma and the Sinti for one. Please inform yourself prior to writing.

– Black and Brown Triangles – Himmler Targets Gypsies. In: The New Historian. 14.11.2016. http://www.newhistorian.com/black-brown-triangles-himmler-targets-gypsies/7555/ [link-preview url=”http://www.newhistorian.com/black-brown-triangles-himmler-targets-gypsies/7555/”]

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German TV: Rroma and Holocaust

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ARD, one of the main German Channels presented a reportage on the persecution of Rroma and Sinti under the Nazis. Good watch.

– In ARD Puzzle. 13.08.2016. http://programm.ard.de/?sendung=2848718977586371 [link-preview url=”http://programm.ard.de/?sendung=2848718977586371″]

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Otto Pankok

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An exhibition of the works of the painter Otto Pankok in commemoration of his 50th anniversary of his death.

– Vom Frühwerk bis zum späten Schaffen. In: RP Online. 11.11.2016. http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/huenxe/vom-fruehwerk-bis-zum-spaeten-schaffen-aid-1.6387554 [link-preview url=”http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/huenxe/vom-fruehwerk-bis-zum-spaeten-schaffen-aid-1.6387554″]

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Bullsh*t

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The Gatestone institute wrote a piece on “no go zones” in Germany, and managed to pack a bunch of nasty and totally inacceptable stereotypes in the process… Totally beyonf the point. For example: “thousands of Bulgarians and Romanians (including Sinti and Roma “gypsies”) have flocked to Duisburg”, Sinti are locals, and the thousands are not there; “New migrants from Bulgaria and Romania are adding to the problems”, what problems, if not the ones of the journalist; this mixed with factual reporting such as “At night, Romanian residents dance on the streets, the sound system in the car supplies loud music” taken from the German Press.
Well, this article is full of stereotypes and is BAD!!!

– Inside Germany’s No-Go Zones: Part I – North Rhine-Westphalia. In: Gatestone Institute. 07.11.2016. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9279/germany-no-go-zones-nrw [link-preview url=”https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9279/germany-no-go-zones-nrw”]

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Munich: An Exhibition on Rroma Persecution

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An exhibition in Munich in the documentation centre on Nazi is commemorating the persecution of Sinti and Rroma through the National Socialists between 1933 and 1945.

– Die Verfolgung der Sinti und Roma in München. In: Bayrisches Rundfunk. 04.11.2016. http://www.br.de/br-fernsehen/sendungen/puzzle/ausstellung-sinti-und-roma-puzzle-100.html [link-preview url=”http://www.br.de/br-fernsehen/sendungen/puzzle/ausstellung-sinti-und-roma-puzzle-100.html”]

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Germany, Rroma, and Education

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According to a recent survey, schools are not a safe place for Rroma and Sinti in Germany. For most of them encounter discrimination and are confronted with sterotypes and prejudices. This is BAD.

– Schule ist für Sinti und Roma kein sicherer Ort. In: Der tagesspeigel. 02.11.2016. http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/bildungsaufsteigerinnen-schule-ist-fuer-sinti-und-roma-kein-sicherer-ort/14783888.html [link-preview url=”http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/bildungsaufsteigerinnen-schule-ist-fuer-sinti-und-roma-kein-sicherer-ort/14783888.html”]

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Rroma and Theatre

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A new theatre play, the Journey – Drom, portrays Rroma who moved to Germany in search of a better life. The play and its Rroma and Gadže actors wants to show the complexity of the refugee issue and wants to further understanding in Germany for their plight.

– Roma spread message of understanding through theatre. In: DW. 01.11.2016. http://www.dw.com/en/roma-spread-message-of-understanding-through-theater/a-36192278 [link-preview url=”http://www.dw.com/en/roma-spread-message-of-understanding-through-theater/a-36192278″]

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Germany: Petition

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A petition to prevent the deportation of a young Rromni born in Hamburg to Montenegro, a country she never saw.
Please sign!

– https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/in-hamburg-geborene-selma-darf-nicht-abgeschoben-werden [link-preview url=”https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/in-hamburg-geborene-selma-darf-nicht-abgeschoben-werden”]

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