Their literature is almost unknown: Only in 2019 for the first time were Sinti and Roma represented with their own stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time. A look at literary alternatives to a world of intolerance and ignorance. This give a nice overview of Roma literature.
A bracelet stolen in Auschwitz from a German Sinto was returned to his heirs.
The Austrian President Van der Bellen commemorated the Roma Holocaust on August 2nd.
Some extracts of the numerous articles in the German Press on the August 2nd commemorations and on the speech of Bodo Ramelow, the president of the German Parliament in Auschwitz.
After the war, around 600 Sinti lived in the GDR. While they continued to be discriminated against in the West even after the Holocaust, in the socialist state they should have had equal rights as citizens. But that was only partially true. In the GDR, little was known about this minority. Sinti from the GDR have only recently begun to speak publicly about their history.
Commemorations of the Roma Holocaust are being held in many places in Europe. One of the main is being held today in Auschwitz in the presence of the President of the German Parliament Bodo Ramelow.
In connection with the upcoming Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day (August 2), the ethnographer, historian and currently advisor to the Slovak Minister of Justice in the field of human rights, Zuzana Kumanová stated that about 22,000 European Roma passed through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and about 19,000 of them never returned.
As usual, this is factually right, but effectively wrong. There were 22’000 REGISTERED Roma in Auschwitz. But by the same token, “only” roughly 300 thousand Jews. People who were immediately killed were not registered.
Acts of racism and discrimination against Roma are largely unreported.
This is bad.
A movie about Roma in Romania, a camp on military land ordered to be closed; a closure of a camp near Paris; and a house that was squatted by Roma returned to its owner. Not much this week in France.
Sinti and Roma belong to Dortmund – and the city will celebrate their culture from August 3 to 21, 2022 at Djelem Djelem. For the ninth time, the festival invites you to workshop, lectures and family celebrations.
Several cities in Germany are organising commemorations for the Holocaust Remembrance Day for Roma. For example Frankfurt, Augsburg, Darmstadt.
Germany Federal Council’s President Bodo Ramelow will be traveling to Poland on 2 August to mark the European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Roma. There he will take part in the international commemoration event at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and give a speech.
Following the stabbing of a doorman by a Rom in the Spanish Andalusian town of Peal de Becerro, a mob went in rampage against local Roma who had to flee. Several houses were burned, damaged and or looted.
Bad.
Activists in Cambridge are asking for a stop of eviction of Travellers and for more sites.
The Research Centre for Antigypsyism at Heidelberg University has celebrated its fifth anniversary. The chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, said at the ceremony that the research centre made it clear how important it is to also deal with the phenomenon of antigypsyism at a scientific level.
A couple of Kosovo Roma who had been in Germany for many years were facing deportation to Kosovo. They are now allowed to stay.
An exhibition in Ireland commemorating the Roma Holocaust.
Trees planted to commemorates the victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp were cur down by vandals.
Bad.
A movie on Romani Rose, Chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma where he speaks about his family.
End of June or at the beginning of July, youth workers from the Society for the Development of Voluntary Work Novo mesto Anisa, Enja, Teo and Tina were in a hurry in Rome, where they took part in the Erasmus+ project Stop Antigypsysim. Together with participants from Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Bulgaria and Montenegro, they discussed the Roma issue, the situation of Roma in the participating countries, and also had the opportunity to get to know Rome, the Vatican and the beach in Ostia.
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