For the remembrance day of the victims of the Nazis on January 27th, a series of NGOs in Trier organises an exhibition and series of conference on the topics of the persecutions of Rroma and Sinti under the Nazis.
Daily Archives: Januar 25, 2015
25.01.2015 Visionary leads a Rroma philharmonic Orchestra
Ricardo Sahiti, born in 1961 in Kosovo dreamt of founding and directing a Rroma philharmonic orchestra. Arte just showed a movie about him and about the orchestra he managed to create and direct.
Visionär macht seinen Traum wahr. In Op.Online.de, 24.01.2015. http://www.op-online.de/lokales/nachrichten/rodgau/riccardo-sahiti-leitet-weltweit-einzige-roma-sinti-philharmonie-4667487.html
25.01.2015 Visionary leads a Rroma philharmonic Orchestra
Ricardo Sahiti, born in 1961 in Kosovo dreamt of founding and directing a Rroma philharmonic orchestra. Arte just showed a movie about him and about the orchestra he managed to create and direct.
Visionär macht seinen Traum wahr. In Op.Online.de, 24.01.2015. http://www.op-online.de/lokales/nachrichten/rodgau/riccardo-sahiti-leitet-weltweit-einzige-roma-sinti-philharmonie-4667487.html
25.01.2015 UK Commissioner Eric Pickle looses a case against Rroma in the UK
London Green Belt Commissioner Eric Pickle lost a landmark case against two Rroma. The judge stated that Pickle’s department breached both human rights and equality laws in denying Rroma to pitch in the green belt. This case highlight the current policies in England but also in France of evicting Rroma settlements, even, if in this case, these existed for generations.
- Eric Pickles discriminated against Romany Gypsies in green belt – judge. In: The Guardian. 21.01.2015. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/21/eric-pickles-unlawfu-discrimination-against-romany-gypsies-green-belt-judge-rules
25.01.2015 The Dutch King will read the names of all Dutch Holocaust Victims
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
25.01.2015 The case of the dead Rroma baby in France:
In a further development in the case of the dead Rroma baby in France, Jacques Toubon, in charge of the defence of the rights, stated that the order of the mayor denying the burial of the baby was illegal. He added that this constituted a discrimination. That Toubon, a rightist politician not know for his love of minorities in France says such things is a sign of progress, albeit a slow one!
- Enterrement d’un bébé rom : le défenseur des droits juge illégale la consigne du maire. In: Le Monde, 22.01.2015. http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2015/01/22/enterrement-d-un-bebe-rom-le-defenseur-des-droits-juge-illegale-la-consigne-du-maire_4561475_3224.html
- See also http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2015/01/22/enterrement-d-un-bebe-rom-le-defenseur-des-droits-juge-illegale-la-consigne-du-maire_4561475_3224.html#r91xiTMBFmc6YGZd.99
25.01.2015 Rroma in Austria: We are still not accepted here.
20 years after an attack against Rroma in Oberwarth in Austria, a bomb attack that left 4 young Rroma dead, the situation that led to these attacks has not really improved. Rroma are still not accepted, for example in the voluntary fire brigade. They are deemed to be the losers of the fall of the Wall. Collectively they say that they are still not accepted around Oberwarth.
- Roma in Oberwart: “Wir sind nach wie vor nicht erwünscht”. In Profil Online. 20.01.2014. http://www.profil.at/articles/1504/985/378898/roma-oberwart-wir
25.01.2015 Remembrance for the liberation of Auschwitz 70 years ago
The “Förderverein Roma” organises a march on January 27th in Frankfurt to mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau (Frankfurter Neue Presse). In that camp, with the special Rroma camp in Birkenau, countless Rroma from several countries were killed. The official number is fairly low, as is the case with Jews, as people that were gassed straight away were not registered. However, many Rroma from Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany and other countries were murdered there.
The Bishop Conference of Germany, for that same commemoration of the liberation liberation of the camp, issued a lengthy statement acknowledging the murder of minorities and other in Auschwitz and appealing for tolerance and help towards others.
- Förderverein Roma erinnert an Auschwitz-Befreiung. Frankfurter Neue Presse, 16.01.2015. http://www.fnp.de/lokales/frankfurt/Foerderverein-Roma-erinnert-an-Auschwitz-Befreiung;art675,1218265
- Kardinal Reinhard Marx und Landesbischof Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohn. Erklärung aus Anlass des 70. Jahrestages der Befreiung des Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz am 27.01.2015. Deutsche Bishopskonferenz, 23.01.2015. http://www.dbk.de/nc/presse/details/?presseid=2724
25.01.2015 Perpignan: Gitans and North Africans Traders at a market.
Street press reports on the Perpigna market in the South of France where Rroma (Gitan) trades work alongside North African immigrants and where both communities make sure the market is safe for visitors. The article, while positive on the whole, still dishes out a few standard clichés: The Gitans were sedentarised (they always were sendentary), both communities are extremely “masculine” with little space for women, etc. As usual, the Rroma realities are not reflected in the press.
- Navarro-Ugé, Garance. Sur le marché de Perpigna, Solidarité etr débrouille entre Gitans et Arabes. In: Street Press. 21.01.2005. http://www.streetpress.com/sujet/1421842376-sur-le-marche-de-perpignan-solidarite-et-debrouille-entre-gitans-et-arabes#
25.01.2015 Murder of Rroma and Sinti: Did we learn anything?
Romani Rose, president of the Zentralrat der deutschen Sinti und Roma ponders about the aftermath and the collective conscience on the murder of Rroma and Sinti during the Holocaust. The fact that besides Jews, Rroma were singled out for racial reasons and murdered during the Holcaust is still not widely acknowledged or known. More work and more information is still required on this topic.
- Wo bleibt die Aufarbeitung des Völkermordes an den Sinti und Roma? In: Kreisbote, 12.01.2015. http://www.kreisbote.de/lokales/fuerstenfeldbruck/sinti-4620592.html
25.01.2015 ‘Gypsies and travellers are hard-working, proud people – they are not criminals’
The Town Council of Hull, in Britain, decided against allowing Travellers a transit site on that commune. The article is an interview of Shay Gibson of the traveller and romany – Gypsies consultancy. He explicitely state that Rroma are the UK oldest minority and that contrary to the beliefs of the population, Rroma are hard working and not criminals.
- ‘Gypsies and travellers are hard-working, proud people – they are not criminal. In: Hull Daily Mail. 25.01.2015. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Gypsies-travellers-hard-working-proud-people-8211/story-25909833-detail/story.html
25.01.2015 Exhibition in Trier on the Nazi persecutions of Rroma and Sinti
For the remembrance day of the victims of the Nazis on January 27th, a series of NGOs in Trier organises an exhibition and series of conference on the topics of the persecutions of Rroma and Sinti under the Nazis.
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