Almost five years ago, the Dresden city council decided to create a monument to the Sinti boxing legend Johann Wilhelm Trollmann so that it would receive more attention. He was killed by the Nazis.
To this date ,nothing has happened.
Surprised?
Well, another old German crooner sings songs that at best can be described as out of fashion, and at worst, borderline racist. In this case, one example is the song “Lustig ist das Zigeunerleben” [Gypsy life is funny].
An Interview and dialogue with the Romano activist Gianni Jovanovic.
Apparently, there is a recent influx in Germany of Roma with brand new Ukrainian passports but who also have Hungarian passports asking for asylum. No one seems to know whether they are Ukrainian or Hungarian, and they speak Hungarian.
The most prosaic answer to this is that they are most probably from Transcarpathian Ukraine, and that thanks to the Hungarian Prime Minister, they were able to get a Hungarian passport as Hungarian speakers living abroad. Orban did grant Hungarian citizenship to Hungarian speakers outside of the country since quite a while.
They are fighting against racism.
English reports on the first report for racism against Roma in Germany.
The first report issued by the new responsible for antigypsyism in Germany on racist acts against Roma in Germany is shocking. More than 600 cases are recorded within a year, and, what is worse, it often involves the state.
Not much at all this week in the French press on Roma. A new camp near Nantes is creating waves exasperation among the nearby residents, and of course is also used politically. Other than that, ca shootout in the North of France involving Roma apparently.
All of this in really rightist press. CNEWS …
Romnja of Serbian and Macedonian origins founded the first Roma Women’s Association registered in Germany. The basic postulates of the Roma Women’s Association are the strengthening of the position of Roma women in the family and society, the fight against violence, forced and early marriages, as well as domestic and sexual violence.
A lecture by a federal police officer at the federal government’s open day in Berlin last weekend sparked sharp criticism from the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and the religious policy spokesman for the Green parliamentary group, Volker Beck.
According to the Central Council and Beck, the representative of the Berlin Directorate of the Federal Police gave a public lecture in the Federal Ministry of the Interior entitled “Beware of thieves! How pickpockets use tricks and how you can successfully ruin their criminal journey.” In it, Roma are said to have been generally referred to as “large criminal families” organized into “criminal clans” that move through Europe. Other ethnic groups were also racially discriminated against: each ethnic group, North African or Polish, had “its own criminal methods”.
An interesting article about Bordeaux wineries employing Roma for the harvest, not all to their advantage. Also in Bordeaux, the closure of two camps. In Montpelier, an exhibition on the German civil right movement; in Grenoble, police intervenes against the installation of Roma in new camps, and in Nantes, a new camp opened.
The 15th International Conference on the linguistics of the Romani language will take place on 13 and 14 September 2023, a biennial event that brings together all the specialists in this field and which is held for the first time in Italy.
Securing, preserving and renovating the Sinto grave in Osendorf, one of the very few such memorial in Germany, remains on the city of Halle (Saale)’s agenda. “This is clearly our goal – even if the city’s application for federal funding was rejected,” says Jane Unger, head of the culture department for the city of Halle (Saale). Financing options for the renovation are now being sought together with the state.
A controversy has been brewing in Bavaria: Aiwanger, the leader of a party in current coalition in the Bavarian government, has been linked to a manifesto, written in the 1980’s that is definitively an apology of Nazism. His brother has in between claimed he is the author and Aiwanger has “apologised”, kind of.
Disgraceful and distasteful.
A very large gathering of evangelical Roma in North Eastern France with more than 20’000 people.
Not much this week in France on Roma. An article about a camp with miserable living conditions near Strasbourg; a new camp near Saint Nazaire in Western France; an article on the book “Ces voyageurs immobiles (Kumpania. Vivre et résister en pays gadjo)”; and finally, an article about the Arles photographic exhibition on the Saintes Marie de la Mer pilgrimage.
A reportage of the mass murder committed by German tropps on Roma during World War Two in the Ukraine.
Croatia and Italy are singled out for their discrimination of Roma.
The exhibition “The Path of #Sinti and #Roma” by the Hessian State Association of Sinti and Roma in northern Hesse will be shown from Saturday, September 2, 2023 (opening from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.) until September 26, 2023.
Witnesses of the racist attack in Rostock in 1992 remember.
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