A 93 years old German woman was sentenced to a year of jail for Holocaust denial.
How can she deny it? This is crazy.
A project by the Polish-Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas was inaugurated in the Polish pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. For the first time in the over 120-year history of the Biennale, the national pavilion is represented by a Roma artist. The pavilion opening ceremony was attended by: Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Wanda Zwinogrodzka, director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Barbara Schabowska and director of Zachęta Janusz Janowski.
The art of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is an attempt or a tool to unlearn thinking that lead to the current war, say Joanna Warsza and Wojciech Szymański, curators of the exhibition “Przeczarowanie świat”, which will be shown at the Polish Pavilion in Venice as part of the Art Biennale 2022.
Note the date: April 21-24, 2022, in Vienna, Austria.
A fire in a camp in Toulouse, one in Nantes, a Rom sentenced for having stabbed another one in Montpellier, and finally a movie “la jeunesse Rom”.
Ein Festival in Vienna – not to be missed.
A debate on the difficulties of integration for Roma. Unfortunately, with the usual stereotypes of 80% of the Roma being poor, travelling, uneducated, etc. all the while saying there are 12 millions of them, which, if they all corresponded to the stereotypes would be much more visible.
Exactly what one doesn’t need. Two Romanian Roma families fought against each other with knives and machetes in the middle of the poshest part of Munich. 3 people were arrested for murder.
Bad.
An interview of Romani Rose, chairman of the Council of German Sinti and Roma.
Not much this week. An article in Charlie Hebdo on anti-tsiganism, a fire in a camp in Toulouse, and a fire near Paris.
On April 8, 2022, the Roma community officially submitted a position paper on the erection of a memorial to the Roma and Sinti murdered during the Nazi era in the Vienna Parliament. The politicians promised support.
A bad headline to say the least: Roma families in Munich and apparently endless issues.
You’d think it was resolved long time ago.
No …
The German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks Roma and Sinti for forgiveness, as it took way to long to recognise the Roma Holocaust and the discriminations continue.
Roma refugees from the Ukraine without valid documents are not welcome.
Bad.
An article about Poland at this year’s Venice Biennale.
Or how a town sends Roma refugees from the Ukraine further away…
Discriminations against Roma are an everyday occurrence in German schools.
Almost no news on Roma in France this week: A town in Northern France is working hard to enrol young Roma in schools; a Romni telling stories to children in Nantes; and the removal of garbage in the vicinity of a Roma squat in Marseilles.
The number of crimes committed against Sinti and Roma fell slightly last year for the first time since systematic recording began in 2017. The authorities reported 109 so-called Roma crimes for the past year – 18 percent fewer than in 2020 with 133 crimes, according to a response from the Federal Ministry of the Interior to a request from the Left Movement reported by the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (NOZ).
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