A reportage in Arte about the discriminations that Roma refugees from the Ukraine are facing in the country.
Two articles in Polish about anti-Roma racism incidents in Germany. In 2023, 1,233 anti-Gypsy incidents were recorded in Germany, almost twice as many as the year before, when there were 621 such cases. The latest data was published on Monday (June 17, 2024) by the Antigypsyism Information and Reporting Center (MIA) in its latest report.
Sami Džemailovski is the founder and president of the Association Roma Carmen e.V. from Dusseldorf. He is a social worker by profession and speaks six languages. DW reporter Danko Rabrenović interviewed him.
Sami is originally from Tito’s Veles (Veles), and he came to Germany for the first time in 1973 with his parents, who were temporarily working in Düsseldorf. At home they spoke Romani, Turkish and Macedonian. Along the way, he also learned Serbian, German and English.
An article on Roma Refugees from the Ukraine in Germany. They are fleeing war, but instead of help, in Germany they often experience racism. The Center for Reporting and Information on Antigypsyism demands action.
More than 1.1 million people fled to Germany from the war in Ukraine, including, it is estimated, several thousand Roma, members of Europe’s largest ethnic minority. While other Ukrainian refugees received unbureaucratic and warm care, most arriving Roma experienced a very different Germany: overly formalized, unhelpful, suspicious, derogatory and racist.
A reportage on a Roma theatre in Hamburg fighting against racism in Germany.
An article about a house in Berlin where most of the tenants are Roma. And the house owners are letting the house fall apart.
Bad, but unfortunately not unusual.
A report on the day to day discrimination faced by Roma in Germany.
Sad.
The word “antigypsyism” describes a special form of racism, namely that against Sinti and Roma. Members of this minority continue to be particularly affected by hostility and exclusion. And they become victims of violence, sometimes fatal violence: members of the Sinti and Roma were also among the victims of the racially motivated attacks at the Munich OEZ and in Hanau. Two years ago, the federal government appointed a representative against antigypsyism for the first time – the lawyer Mehmet Daimagüler.
Journalist Ingrid Müller-Münch will speak about “Deadly police violence against Sinti and Roma” between 1945 and 1980 on Thursday, March 21st, at 6 p.m. as part of the International Weeks Against Racism in the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg.
A new paper and hybrid seminar from the Trinity College in Dublin on the Roma and Sinti women who were abused in the Nazis’ biomedical experiments during the Nazi regime.
Another article on the inauguration of the Encyclopaedia of the Genocide of the Roma.
The first Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) for Sinti and Roma in Dresden have been unveiled.
The site of encyclopaedia of the Genocide of the Roma is now online.
The encyclopaedia of the Genocide of the Roma was launched yesterday. This press article is an interview of the project leader, Dr. Karola Fings.
Sinti and Roma have had their home in Germany for centuries – and yet they are still subjected to severe discrimination today.
In addition to six million Jews, 500,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe during the Holocaust.
It took four decades until the then German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt recognized the genocide against Sinti and Roma under international law in 1982. In 2022, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier described antigypsyism and the continued injustice against Sinti and Roma after 1945 as a “second persecution” and asked Sinti and Roma for forgiveness.
Another article on the Encyclopaedia of the Genocide of the Roma which will be formally inaugurated today.
An article about the forthcoming inauguration of the Encylopaedia of the Roma Genocide that will be released online on March 5th.
The facts: a 21 year old Bulgarian-German dual citizen attacked two children in Duisburg with a knife and severely wounded them. The motive is totally unclear at this stage.
The Bulgarian press speaks of a “slaughter” and says that the person is of Roma origins… The fact that the article contradicts itself (the title says the attacker is 17 and the article says he is 21) shows how serious this article is.
Bad.
A reportage on recent research on Roma and Sinti in the German region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
The Berlinale Festival invited 2 AfD politicians to the opening on February 15th. They justify this invitation by saying that all parties are invited and have a contingent.
Yes, but not all parties advocate throwing out foreigners and non-German aliens out of the country either. And this can easily encompass Roma and Sinti, as well as Jews…
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