An article highlighting the fact that Roma refugees are being excluded by Ukrainian refugees.
Another article, this time in the Polish press about Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’ exhibition in Berlin. The host of the exhibition is the famous Brücke Museum, presenting only Expressionist painters associated in the early 20th century in the group “Die Brücke”. Małgorzata Mirgi-Tas’s exhibition “Sivdem Amenge. I sewed for us” is an artistic dialogue with selected artists of this group. But not only.
The article states that Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is currently the most famous contemporary Polish visual artist in the world.
The Berlin police wanted to deport a Roma family from Moldova early in the morning. The parents weren’t there, just two children. The officers took the 18-year-old daughter away and “handed over” the 11-year-old son to the neighbours. The boy then disappeared the management of the refugee home called the police and the youth welfare office, but even after the entire home was searched, he remained missing.
His siter was deported.
The Romani artist is having an exhibition in Berlin and gave an interview to TaZ.
An exhibition on the on the Genocide of the Sinti and Roma, designed by the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial will be shown in the Flohburg in Nordhausen, Germany, opening on July 7th.
A social worker was hit by a steel ball in what the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma already denotes as being an anti-Roma attack.
On the site of the Berlin camp of Marzahn, a monument commemorating the Sinti and Roma victims was inaugurated Sunday.
Erinnerungsort gedenkt verschleppter Sinti und Roma. In: RBB24. 11.06.2023. https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2023/06/gedenken-sinti-roma-ns-zeit-zwangslager-berlin-marzahn.html
A small child died in a fire in an asylum seeker centre in the Thuringian town of Apolda. The child is from a Roma family from the Ukraine.
It is not yet known whether this was arson or an accidental fire. Romani Rose, the chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma is asking for a prompt investigation.
The German town of Neustrelitz, north of Berlin, will name a street after deported Sinti children who died in Auschwitz. The Street will be named Rose-Wagner-Groß Strasse after the 7 children.
The Madhouse association developed a special idea with the Munich police to break down mutual prejudices: a friendly football tournament in which all groups, Sinti, Roma, the police, compete and play together. get to know and respect each other.
An exhibition about Sinti and Roma in Darmstadt, Germany.
The Memorial for the Roma and Sinti victims of the Nazi genocide was damaged. The Central Council of the German Sinti and Roma sharply condemned this attack and asked for the underlying motives to beunderstood.
May 16th, 1944, Roma concentration camp inmates started an uprising against the wardens in Auschwitz. The “Zigeunerlager” was definitively closed on August 2nd of that year.
Romno Kher (Roma House) sees itself as a place of learning, commemoration and encounter. Here, education not only means supporting children on their educational path, but also providing materials on the history and situation of the Sinti and Roma for schools and for the majority society. For example, based on the exhibition on the entire 600-year history since the Sinti were first documented in Germany in the 15th century: A history of discrimination that culminated in the Nazi genocide. But the exhibition also tells of survival strategies, of jobs, music, storytelling, right up to current topics such as the State Treaty and the Berlin Monument.
The German Greens are against the proposal to qualify Moldova and Georgia as “secure states”, a measure that would allow Germany a speedy dispatching of refugees from those countries back in their homeland.
Two cases of houses in Berlin which are mostly rented by Roma, where the residents have been expelled and need to go, making space for newer constructions.
The chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani, praised Brandenburg as exemplary with regard to its minority policy. “By making the fight against antiziganism a state goal, the state government is showing its responsibility to history and outlawing antiziganism as well as antisemitism,” said Rose on Tuesday after a conversation with Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD). “It sets an exemplary signal for our democratic constitutional state.”
Mehmet Daimagüler, the German antiziganism commissioner, criticises the Police and the fact that they are profiling Roma.
Ilona Lagrene, who grew up in Heidelberg, received the Gold Staufer medal from Lord Mayor Peter Kurz for her services to the country and her commitment to Sinti and Roma.
Well done!
The German Grimme Prize is considered the most important prize for German TV. The winners have been known for a while, but they only now received their prizes. In the “Information & Culture” category, Peter Nestler was honoured for his documentary film about the injustice against German Sinti and Roma families. He tells of Romani Rose’s family, their resistance and their insistence on justice (ZDF/3sat, 112 minutes).
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