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Romanistan

On Sunday, October 19 in Nijmegen the performance Romanistan, accompanied by a fringe program featuring a photo exhibition and podcast series will be held.

“Fear turns people who could also be your friends into enemies,” says Carla Hardy, the project’s director. “I want to make tangible the consequences of stigmatization and polarization. How long will we perpetuate stereotypes instead of truly delving into this history?”

In the performance Romanistan, three young artists explore what it means to be Roma. At the same time, it is a plea to view history not simply as a past, but as a living and contemporary story, residing in the bodies of the new generation who are searching for a right to exist and recognition without having to hide or deny their identity.

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Westerbork

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Eighty years ago, in May 1944, 578 Roma and Sinti were rounded up in a major raid and transported to Camp Westerbork. Of these, 245 were deported by train to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. Only 31 returned alive.

A commemoration was held on Sunday on the site.

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Westerbork

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The camp of Westerbork in the Netherlands, a camp from which many Jews and Roma were transferred to death camps, wants to put more emphasis on the victims of the Holocaust. The military tattoo will no longer be blown at the 4 May commemoration in Camp Westerbork this year, instead the bell of camp will be rung before the two minutes of silence.

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Netherlands – Accusations

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Following the decision in the Netherlands Railway to compensate people who were deported by train to concentration camps or their relatives, a feud between Roma organisations has erupted. Accusations are being made, all in the open.
This is bad.

– Nederlandse vereniging Roma en Sinti reageert op beschuldigingen Steinse club. In: Limburger. 30.12.2018. https://www.limburger.nl/cnt/dmf20181230_00086201/nederlandse-vereniging-roma-en-sinti-reageert-op-steinse-club [link-preview url=”https://www.limburger.nl/cnt/dmf20181230_00086201/nederlandse-vereniging-roma-en-sinti-reageert-op-steinse-club”]

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Zoni Weisz

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The life story of Zoni Weisz, a Dutch Sinto who was deported at the age of 7.

– „Ich bin ein Blumenkind“. In: Deutschlandfunk. 01.01.2019. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/das-leben-des-sinto-zoni-weisz-ich-bin-ein-blumenkind.694.de.html?dram:article_id=436992 [link-preview url=”https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/das-leben-des-sinto-zoni-weisz-ich-bin-ein-blumenkind.694.de.html?dram:article_id=436992″]

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Netherlands: Complaint

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Roma and travellers associations have filed a complaint against the police in the Netherlands for discrimination. They accuse the police of portraying them and handling them as a criminal organisation.

– Travellers file police complaint against mayors for discrimination. In: Dutch News. 10.12.2018. https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/12/travellers-file-police-complaint-against-mayors-for-discrimination/ [link-preview url=”https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/12/travellers-file-police-complaint-against-mayors-for-discrimination/”]

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Dutch Rail to pay

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The Dutch Railway is to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors and their relatives for having transported people to the Westerbrock Transit camp. Under the victims where several Roma and Sinti families.

– Holocaust: Dutch rail firm NS to pay families compensation. In: BBC News. 28.11.2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46370611
– Dutch to pay holocaust compensation. In: The Nation. 29.11.2018. https://nation.com.pk/29-Nov-2018/dutch-to-pay-holocaust-compensation [link-preview url=”https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46370611 “]

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Exhibition

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An exhibition on the lives, traditions and history of the Roma in the Netherlands opened in the Eindhoven Catharinakerk.

– Expositie toont tradities en soms tragische historie Sinti en Roma. In: Studio 40. 06.09.2018. https://www.studio040.nl/expositie-toont-tradities-en-soms-tragische-historie-sinti-en-roma/content/item?1098210 [link-preview url=”https://www.studio040.nl/expositie-toont-tradities-en-soms-tragische-historie-sinti-en-roma/content/item?1098210″]

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Holland and Holocaust

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The Dutch are speaking about Roma victims of the Holocaust. This time from Den Bosch, where 51 Roma were transferred in May 1944 to a camp where all but 13 died.

– Over Sinti en Roma in oorlogstijd Den Bosch is bitter weinig bekend. In: BD. 02.05.2018. https://www.bd.nl/s-hertogenbosch/over-sinti-en-roma-in-oorlogstijd-den-bosch-is-bitter-weinig-bekend~acf7143b/ [link-preview url=”https://www.bd.nl/s-hertogenbosch/over-sinti-en-roma-in-oorlogstijd-den-bosch-is-bitter-weinig-bekend~acf7143b/”]

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Dutch Red Cross: Sorry …

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The Dutch Red Cross admitted mistakes during World War Two, essentially for not having helped Jews, Sinti and Roma and for not having denounced the crimes against them.
Good, but it took them 72 years …

– Fehler in der Nazi-Zeit eingeräumt. In: TAZ. 03.11.2017. http://www.taz.de/Niederlaendisches-Rotes-Kreuz/!5460053/ [link-preview url=”http://www.taz.de/Niederlaendisches-Rotes-Kreuz/!5460053/”]

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Holland: Holocaust Museum

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The Ditch government sets over 8 Mio EUR for a Dutch Holocaust Museum and Memorial commemorating the ca. 102’000 Jews, Rroma and Sinti who were murdered in that country during World War Two.

– Dutch government allocates over $8.5 million to establishing Holocaust museum. In: JTA. 01.02.2017. http://www.jta.org/2017/02/01/news-opinion/world/dutch-government-allocates-over-8-5-million-to-establishing-holocaust-museum [link-preview url=”http://www.jta.org/2017/02/01/news-opinion/world/dutch-government-allocates-over-8-5-million-to-establishing-holocaust-museum”]

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Netherland: Exhibition

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The Hague: The foundation O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) is organising and exhibition from the 3rd to the 25th of February at the Art Library in the library in Rijswijk. “Sinti and Roma over the centuries in the Netherlands”.

– Sinti en Roma in Nederland. In: Grootrijswijk. http://www.grootrijswijk.nl/activiteit/item/sinti-en-roma-in-nederland/81501 [link-preview url=”http://www.grootrijswijk.nl/activiteit/item/sinti-en-roma-in-nederland/81501″]

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Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdanm

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Liebeskind’s plans for a Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam were unveiled. The memorial is dedicated to the 103’000 Jews and Rroma from Holland who were sent to the concentration camps.

– Holocaust Memorial Is Closer to Reality in Amsterdam. 16.12.2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/arts/design/holocaust-memorial-is-closer-to-reality-in-amsterdam.html?_r=0 [link-preview url=”http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/arts/design/holocaust-memorial-is-closer-to-reality-in-amsterdam.html?_r=0″]

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Criminal Networks: Netherlands

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Criminal Networks: Netherlands

Police in the Netherland has apparently uncovered 4 networks trafficking Rroma children for theft and begging. Apparently, the children are meant to steel 1’000 EUR per day. Some of these children had been placed under supervision in Holland and were found in Spain. The story seems true, unfortunately. To be followed.

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25.01.2015 The Dutch King will read the names of all Dutch Holocaust Victims

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Wilheml Alexander, King of the Netherlands, will read the names of victims of the Holocaust as part of a remembrace that will read out the name of 102’000 Jews, Rroma, and Sinti that were deported to concentration camps during the war. He will be part of 700 people reading these names on the 27th of January.

Niederländischer König verliest Namen von Holocaust-Opfern. Handelsblatt, 23.01.2015. http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/willem-alexander-niederlaendischer-koenig-verliest-namen-von-holocaust-opfern/11275470.html

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