Category Archives: Czech Republic

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Czechia: Project

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A project called “Everyone Together”, supported by Norwegian funds, lasted two and a half years in Tábor, Czechia. It enabled more insight in the relationship between the Roma and the majority population in Tábor and into the problems of the Roma. Around six hundred of them live in the town of Tabor which has 34 thousand inhabitants. However, it is clear from the results of surveys, polls and analyses, that a lot of work still needs to be done.

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Roma and Ukrainians

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Dialogue and striving for mutual understanding are the key to peaceful coexistence, agreed the participants of the reconciliation round table, which took place on Thursday in response to the recent conflict in Kutná Hora, during which one of the local Roma was attacked by a Ukrainian citizen. Subsequently, a demonstration was held by part of the local Roma community. The government representative for the Roma minority Lucie Fuková, the mayor of Kutná Hora Lukáš Seifert, representatives of the police and the local Roma and Ukrainian communities took part in the meeting.

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Khamoro

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An article on the upcoming 26th edition of the international Roma festival in Prague that will last an entire week starting on May 26th.

Džemil Silajdžić, the producer and dramaturg of the festival said: “We tuned the program up to the last minute, and I can promise that everyone will really enjoy it. I believe that this year’s Khamoro will be at least as successful as last year, when we celebrated our twenty-fifth birthday and enjoyed the huge interest of visitors. We are very much looking forward to everyone who loves Roma culture or is just starting to discover it. Khamoro shines for everyone.”

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Official Opening

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Many articles in the Czech press about the official opening of the memorial on the site of the former concentration camp of Lety.

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Lety

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The Roma and Sinti Holocaust Memorial in Lety na Píseck will be opened to the public for the first time today. It stands on the site of a former concentration camp for Roma from the Second World War. From today at 12:00 p.m., a commemoration of the victims of the Roma Holocaust is being held in the memorial area. ROMEA TV broadcasts the course of the memorial service live. It will be attended by Senate President Miloš Vystrčil (ODS). The memorial will open to the public at 3:00 p.m.

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A Historian on Lety

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Anna Míšková, a co-creator of the Lety exhibition, described the creation of the camp, life and death within it, and also talked about the pre-war position of the Roma in Czech society. She said that even before the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, there were proposals for the establishment of labour camps, there was often an effort to expel the Roma from the territory of the municipalities where they lived.

Well, nearly all Roma from Czechia died in the Holocaust.

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Prague: Kali Sarah

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The first annual Kali Sara festival will take place in Prague on May 18, 2024 in the premises of PVA Letňany. The festival is inspired by the traditional meeting of Roma in the French village of Saintes Marie de la Mer and the feast of Saint Sarah, who for many is a symbol of Roma identity and faith.

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Lety

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The memorial of the Genocide of the Roma in the camp of Lety, Czechia, will be open to the public on Sunday the 12th of May.

What is interesting in this article is that it states that ‘The participation of Czech gendarmes and camp commanders in the genocide of the Roma during the Second World War was denied throughout the forty years of communism. The taboo after the revolution was broken by historian Ctibor Nečas”

As a reminder, less than 40 Roma families from present Day Czechia survived the Holocaust.

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Khamoro Festival

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From June 1st onward, the 26th edition of the Khamoro festival in Prague will bring nnbridled flamenco in a modern guise, energetic Olaš (Vlach) chapáš, Macedonian brass band, bravura gypsy jazz, but also film screenings and a gastronomic show.

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Czechia: Attack

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Czechia: Attack

A young Roma family from Svitavy was the victim of an attack by an older man who allegedly racially abused them and threatened them with death. He apparently even pointed an unloaded gun at the partner of a young Roma woman and pulled the trigger. The incident took place on Friday, May 3, around 6 p.m., when the woman and her friend stopped their car at a relative’s house. The police confirmed to the news website Romea.cz that they are investigating the case, but did not prove a racial motive for the attack even though he called them “black monkeys”.

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Holocaust in Czechia

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A new book by the Historian Jiří Smlsal, relates how not only were the Czech Roma killed during the war, but their property was simply seized. No Roma were ever compensated for this.

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Czechia: Attack and a Demonstration

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A video from last Monday showed a Ukrainian speaking man attacking a Rom in Kutná Hora, Czechia. Some other Ukrainians dragged him away.

Roma demonstrated in the town following the attack.

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Czech Mayor and Roma

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The deputy and mayor of Brno’s Černovice, Petra Quittová (STAN) made derogatory comments about a Roma family. Now many ask for her resignation. She still refuses.

She was answering questions in the municipal council on a house that is now inhabited by a Roma family. Quittová responded that the house was sold through a real estate agency, the sellers were a couple she knows personally. “They sold it to…, yes, to people, um, others, I don’t know how to say it now, simply to Roma, whom we got rid of, whom we got rid of a few years ago from Staré Černovice, who moved to Slavkov near Brno, and these people simply bought it from our people, whom I know, because they gave the highest bid,” said the mayor.

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Amnesty on Czechia

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Amnesty criticised the Czech Republic for the discrimination faced by Ukrainians and for the school segregation for Roma. The latter has not improved over the last 20 years.

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Lety

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Lety

Many articles in the Czech press about the inauguration of the Lety Memorial in presence of the Czech president Petr Pavel.

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Czechia and Roma Discrimination

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An editorial on discrimination of Roma in Czechia, but also on the comparison to other European states such as Germany and Spain. Conclusion is, well, while in other states discrimination does exist, at least it is being fought again. While in Czechia …

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