According to Daniel Strauss, chairman of the State Association of Sinti and Roma in Baden-Württemberg, Roma were discriminated against in Ukraine, a discrimination which continued after fleeing the war zone to Germany.
Sinti and Roma opened and anti-discrimination office in Nuremberg. They hope this will help highlight the current racism and discriminations faced by this minority in Germany and also contribute to the fight against racism.
Sinti from Osnabrück, Germany are asking for explanations following a search in a Sinti camp in the city. The police far exceeded the scope of the search warrant they had.
Last week, the German police raided a Sinti camp in Osnabrück, on the suspicion that a condemned criminal was there. So far, no issue. But then they searched every one in the camp, which is an issue, as this went way beyond their warrant.
A special commemoration will be held in Berlin on August 2nd.
Several articles criticising the police report on clan criminality from Lower Saxony as being racist and based against Sinti and Roma.
The story of a police Razzia in a Sinti camp in Osnabrück, Germany. The police went too far, unfortunately not an exception. They had an arrest warrant for one person, and took the opportunity to search all…
At the end of June, the Ministry of the Interior and Justice in Hanover presented the “Clan Crime Situation Report 2022”. The Central Council of Sinti and Roma is now criticizing the police stigmatization of minorities and is calling for investigations into racist discrimination to be stopped.
Romani Rose, the chairman of the Central Council, stated that the report is a “continuation of the racist and antiziganist recording”, which is being continued despite the painful history of this minority and despite the ban in the constitution.
The conference, organized by the city archive is dedicated to a dark chapter in Magdeburg’s past. As a city spokesman announced, Verena Meier from the University of Heidelberg will speak about the genocide of Sinti and Roma under National Socialism and the difficult work involved in coming to terms with it.
An article highlighting the fact that Roma refugees are being excluded by Ukrainian refugees.
Another article, this time in the Polish press about Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’ exhibition in Berlin. The host of the exhibition is the famous Brücke Museum, presenting only Expressionist painters associated in the early 20th century in the group “Die Brücke”. Małgorzata Mirgi-Tas’s exhibition “Sivdem Amenge. I sewed for us” is an artistic dialogue with selected artists of this group. But not only.
The article states that Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is currently the most famous contemporary Polish visual artist in the world.
The Berlin police wanted to deport a Roma family from Moldova early in the morning. The parents weren’t there, just two children. The officers took the 18-year-old daughter away and “handed over” the 11-year-old son to the neighbours. The boy then disappeared the management of the refugee home called the police and the youth welfare office, but even after the entire home was searched, he remained missing.
His siter was deported.
The Romani artist is having an exhibition in Berlin and gave an interview to TaZ.
An exhibition on the on the Genocide of the Sinti and Roma, designed by the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial will be shown in the Flohburg in Nordhausen, Germany, opening on July 7th.
A social worker was hit by a steel ball in what the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma already denotes as being an anti-Roma attack.
On the site of the Berlin camp of Marzahn, a monument commemorating the Sinti and Roma victims was inaugurated Sunday.
Erinnerungsort gedenkt verschleppter Sinti und Roma. In: RBB24. 11.06.2023. https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2023/06/gedenken-sinti-roma-ns-zeit-zwangslager-berlin-marzahn.html
A small child died in a fire in an asylum seeker centre in the Thuringian town of Apolda. The child is from a Roma family from the Ukraine.
It is not yet known whether this was arson or an accidental fire. Romani Rose, the chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma is asking for a prompt investigation.
The German town of Neustrelitz, north of Berlin, will name a street after deported Sinti children who died in Auschwitz. The Street will be named Rose-Wagner-Groß Strasse after the 7 children.
The Madhouse association developed a special idea with the Munich police to break down mutual prejudices: a friendly football tournament in which all groups, Sinti, Roma, the police, compete and play together. get to know and respect each other.
An exhibition about Sinti and Roma in Darmstadt, Germany.
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