Author Archives: Roma Foundation

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Roumanie

Romania commemorates the Holocaust against the Roma

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“Today we pay a pious tribute to the memory of the Roma, the almost 500,000 children, women and men victims of the Holocaust. Entire families perished in this genocide, being subjected to horrific brutalities. Our thoughts also go out to those who survived the horrors and their descendants. This year, in Romania, we commemorate 80 years since the first deportations of Roma to Transnistria by the Antonescu regime. About 25,000 Roma were deported to Transnistria and condemned to live in inhuman and unsanitary conditions, deprived of food and forced to do forced labour. Of these, not more than half had the strength to survive. The Romanian state has assumed responsibility for this crime, a dark episode of our history,” states a message sent by President Klaus Iohannis.

Bravo, that is a real first.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovénie

Slovenia Holocaust Commemoration

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A word of warning during the Slovenian commemoration of the Roma Holocaust Day in view of hate speech and racism towards Roma.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Pologne

More Polish Articles on Auschwitz Commemoration

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Autriche Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Roma Holocaust Remembrance: Austria

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The Austrian President Van der Bellen commemorated the Roma Holocaust on August 2nd.

Croatie Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est

Roma Holocaust Remembrance: Croatia

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Croatia commemorated the Roma Holocaust on August 2nd. This commemoration is always controversial due to the rehabilitation of several Croatians Ustaša. The Fascist Croatian regime effectively killed near ALL Croatian Roma in World War Two, a fact that they currently prefer to ignore.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Pologne

Roma Holocaust Remembrance: Poland

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Some extracts and reactions in the Polish Press on the commemorations of the Roma Holocaust.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Ukraine

Roma Holocaust Remembrance: Ukraine

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Some articles in the Ukraine of the August 2nd commemoration of the Roma Holocaust.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovaquie

Roma Holocaust Remembrance: Slovakia

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The Slovak president Čaputová even spoke Romanes on the occasion of the August 2nd commemorations in Slovakia.

République tchèque Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est

Roma Holocaust Remembrance: Prague

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The Czech Republic commemorated August 2nd. The Prague municipality flew the Roma flag and several other commemorations were held.

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Roma Holocaust Remembrance: German Press

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Some extracts of the numerous articles in the German Press on the August 2nd commemorations and on the speech of Bodo Ramelow, the president of the German Parliament in Auschwitz.

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest

Roma and Sinti in the German Democratic Republic

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After the war, around 600 Sinti lived in the GDR. While they continued to be discriminated against in the West even after the Holocaust, in the socialist state they should have had equal rights as citizens. But that was only partially true. In the GDR, little was known about this minority. Sinti from the GDR have only recently begun to speak publicly about their history.

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Pologne

Roma Holocaust

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Commemorations of the Roma Holocaust are being held in many places in Europe. One of the main is being held today in Auschwitz in the presence of the President of the German Parliament Bodo Ramelow.

République tchèque Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Ukraine

Ukraine Refugees in the Czech Republic

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It is not good, as one third of them have experienced discrimination, and children are not enrolled in school.

A shame.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovaquie

Lunik IX

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The Luník IX estate in Košice, although built as an ideal socialist housing estate, for years was known as the largest slum in this part of Europe. The district is the largest concentration of the Roma population in Slovakia, there was unimaginable poverty and terrible living and sanitary conditions there. People had to live surrounded by heaps of rubbish between which rats were running. This sad landscape has slowly started to change recently.

Luník IX was built as an ABC estate. “A” for army, “B” for security, and “C” for gypsies. It quickly turned out, however, that neither the militiamen nor the soldiers intend to live there.

Allemagne Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Nouvelles d'Europe de l'ouest Pologne Slovaquie

Auschwitz and Roma

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In connection with the upcoming Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day (August 2), the ethnographer, historian and currently advisor to the Slovak Minister of Justice in the field of human rights, Zuzana Kumanová stated that about 22,000 European Roma passed through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and about 19,000 of them never returned.

As usual, this is factually right, but effectively wrong. There were 22’000 REGISTERED Roma in Auschwitz. But by the same token, “only” roughly 300 thousand Jews. People who were immediately killed were not registered.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Slovaquie

Slovakia and Roma

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After the delegation of European MPs visited Slovak Roma settlements, the European Commission began to pressure Slovakia to prepare a completely new system for drawing European funds for Roma inclusion projects. The government managed to convince the commission and proposed a new structure. The head of the new management structure will be the commissioner for Roma communities, who will coordinate the use of more than 900 million euros. An administrative apparatus of more than four hundred people will help him with this.

Well, let’s see how this works.

Croatie Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est

Croatia: Reaction

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The representative of national minorities in the Croatian Parliament, Veljko Kajtazi, commented live for N1 Studio on the latest statements of the President of Croatia, Zoran Milanović, who on Friday in Imotski commented on the Roma community and his earlier statements about them and the climate.

Veljko Kajtazi said that he did not ask for an apology from the president for his earlier statements, but added that he considered the statements inappropriate.

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