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German federal Police and Roma

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German federal Police and Roma

The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Central Council of Sinti and Roma have signed an agreement to take joint action against antigypsyism. The BKA recognizes the working definition of antiziganism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, as the police authority in Wiesbaden announced. This can be used to counteract racism against Sinti and Roma.

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Germany: Condemned

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Germany: Condemned

A German Neo Nazi was condemned to two years and eight months of jail for having slashed a Jamaican man with a cutter and nearly killed him as well for having done the Nazi salute in front of the Roma Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, as well as having work several Nazi emblems and symbols.

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German’s Financial Administration and the Holocaust

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German’s Financial Administration and the Holocaust

In January 2023, a research and exhibition project called “Robbed before deportation. People persecuted by the Nazis in the focus of the Hamburg financial administration” will be started. The Hamburg tax authority is funding it with 203,000. The Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centers Foundation to commemorate the victims of Nazi crimes will research the role played by the Hamburg tax authorities in the disenfranchisement, exploitation and deportation of Sintize and Sinti, Romnja and Roma Jews. The results will be made available to the public in the form of a traveling exhibition, which will be on view in Hamburg City Hall and in the Leo Lippmann Hall in the tax authority in 2025.

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Germany and the Holocaust of the Roma

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Germany and the Holocaust of the Roma

The “forgotten Holocaust” – that’s what Zoni Weisz, who was the first Sinto to speak before the Bundestag on January 27, 2011, called the genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe. His speech and the inauguration of the memorial for the murdered in 2012 stand for the late recognition of this story by the Federal Republic. But German society had not simply forgotten the Nazi genocide. She deliberately refused to recognize the minority that had lived in Germany for centuries.

A new book by Sebastian Lotto-Kusche: called “The genocide of the Sinti and Roma and the Federal Republic. The long road to recognition.”  (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2022. 264 pages) analyses this denial.

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Amaro Filmo

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Amaro Filmo

The movie “Amaro Filmos” (Sic.), a documentary in which young Roma from Berlin give an insight into their lives. Racism, antiziganism, gentrification and the associated displacement of an entire community are highlighted – because many of the protagonists lived in the so-called “block” at the Ostbahnhof until the end of 2022, when the last families had to move out.

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Integration Councils and Racism

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Integration Councils and Racism

Individual members of the Nuremberg Integration Council have been criticized for racist statements. Integration councilor Mitra Sharifi explains why such bodies are not free of racism – and what needs to be done about it. Racism against Sinti and Roma is quite prevalent.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma invites you to a reading with music and singing. The opera and operetta singer Mirano Cavaljeti-Richter will present his recently published memoirs on January 28 together with the historian Annette Leo. In addition, the 89-year-old will perform some pieces with musical accompaniment.

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Movie

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Movie

The movie “Injustice and Resistance” about Romani Rose and the Sinti and Roma civil right movement will be shown in London in the Goethe Institute on January 27th.

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Germany and Hate Mails

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Germany and Hate Mails

A man in Berlin has been sentenced to ten months in prison for sending hate mail containing racist abuse of Sinti and Roma. The district court in Tiergarten found the 56-year-old guilty of incitement to hatred and insult, the Berlin public prosecutor announced on Tuesday. He also had to pay 4,000 euros to the “HateAid” advice center for those affected by digital violence. According to the public prosecutor’s office, the sentence, which was suspended on probation, included an earlier fine for insult, incitement to hatred and the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations.

In the current case, the 56-year-old sent e-mails to the Central Council of Sinti and Roma seven times between October 2020 and July 2021.

Good!

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Germany: Documentary

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Germany: Documentary

The members of the Schwarz family sit on the couch or camping chairs and talk about the past and present of antiziganism. Many of her grandparents were deported under the Nazis. While the contemporary witnesses have already died or have not returned from the camps, the traumatic experiences live on in the stories and return in antiziganism insults and violence in German schoolyards.

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Germany and Ukrainian Refugees

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Germany and Ukrainian Refugees

A rochade among refugees in Germany. A group of Ukrainian refugees was moved away from their current home to make space for Hungarian speaking Roma refugees from Transcarpathian Ukraine who were in a temporary camp. The original refugees will be put in better homes, apparently, rather than in that particular large home they were in.

A bit of a mess, and the Germans admit their communication was not optimal.

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Germany, Roma, and Education

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Germany, Roma, and Education

When Sinti and Roma are mentioned in school lessons, it is mostly as victims of the genocide, according to the sociologist Patočková. She calls for a rethink. The Conference of Ministers of Education decided in December to want to teach the history and current situation of the Sinti and Roma in lessons in the future. She negotiated the recommendations and signed them as a representative of the Alliance for Solidarity with the Sinti and Roma of Europe.

Veronika Patočková hopes are: I hope that the situation in the education system will improve – both for the children and young people from the Sinti and Roma communities and for everyone else. More than half a million Roma and Sinti live in Germany. In education, however, they rarely occur. That needs to change. We hope that the decision is a first step in this direction.

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Philomena Franz

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Philomena Franz

Many articles in the German press and reactions from politicians to the death of the Holocaust survivor Philomena Franz.

May she rest in peace.

A selection of articles below:

Roth würdigt Auschwitz-Überlebende Philomena Franz. In: WDR. 30.12.2022. https://www1.wdr.de/kultur/kulturnachrichten/philomena-franz-sintezza-auschwitz-tod-claudia-roth-100.html

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Gentrification in Germany

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Gentrification in Germany

The gentrification process hits Sinti and Roma twice as hard as other residents. Throughout Germany, they are evicted from their homes or forced to move into dilapidated houses or even construction containers.

Roksana’s family had twenty minutes to pack their things. Then they had to leave the apartment. Immediately. When the 17-year-old returned from school, her parents and six siblings were already on the street. They didn’t know where to go. The building supervision authority in Duisburg cleaned the entire apartment building. Reason: construction faults.

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80 Years

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80 Years

With the so-called Auschwitz Decree issues 80 years ago, the Nazi regime ordered the deportation of Sinti and Roma from all over Europe to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp 80 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of Sinti and Roma fell victim to the genocide.

Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and the chairman of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, commemorated the Sinti and Roma murdered by the National Socialists at the Sachsenhausen Memorial on Thursday.

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