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Poland: Memorial

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Poland: Memorial

A year ago, at the cemetery in Imbramowice, near Wrocław, the construction of a monument financed by the Institute of National Remembrance was completed on a collective grave of 50 Polish citizens of Roma nationality, murdered by the Germans on February 2 and 3, 1943 in Imbramowice and Wolbrom. At that time, due to the limitations related to the pandemic, it was not possible to consecrate the tombstone. It was successfully consecrated last Sunday.

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Czech Republic and Roma refugees

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Czech Republic and Roma refugees

Roma refugees in Prague were housed in 4 large tents. Two of them have now been dismantled.

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Slovakia and Projects

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Slovakia and Projects

Dozens of Roma civic activists from Gemer, Novohrad and Malohont in Slovakia have been participating in activities aimed at furthering their involvement in cultural, social and communal events in the region since the autumn of 2019. The project, implemented by the Láčho drom cultural and educational association from Kokava nad Rimavicou in the Poltár district, was supported by the European Social Fund through the Operational Program Effective Public Administration in the amount of EUR 338,625, of which five percent was co-financing.

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Czech Republic and Roma

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Czech Republic and Roma

The Czech interior minister agreed with Roma NGOs on how to better help Roma refugees from the Ukraine.

Good!

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Czech Republic and Roma Holocaust

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A former Czech MP has been sentenced to six months’ probation for denying the genocide of the Roma. In 2017, Miloslav Rozner of the right-wing party Freedom and Direct Democracy described the Roma concentration camp in Lety as a “non-existent pseudo-concentration camp”. A district court in Prague assessed this as a denial of the genocide of the Sinti and Roma. However, the judgment is not yet final.

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Ustasha and Roma

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Ustasha and Roma

Croatia for the first tie commemorated Roma victims of the Ustasha who literally killed the entire Roma population of Croatia. Meanwhile, the Jewish community declined to participate in the commemoration in Jasenovac, the infamous concentration camp. They are right, and Roma should do the same.

Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Ukraine

Roma Activist on the Ukraine

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Roma Activist on the Ukraine

Ukrainian Roma activists are criticising the ongoing discrimination against Roma in the Ukraine and highlight that this is being used by Russian propaganda to brand Ukrainians as “Nazis”.

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The Scandal Pictures

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The Scandal Pictures

The picture of Roma bound to posts made it through social media, amplified by Russia, alleging this was outright discrimination. As usual, reality is more circumstantiated, as these Roma were caught stealing (see also below the article in Romea). Nevertheless, self-justice, and especially of this kind is not acceptable.

This Ukrainian article strongly condemn this act, and effectively says this plays in the hand of the Russians in their attempt to portray all Ukrainians as Nazis.

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Hero

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Hero

Better housing, employment and better living conditions are to be brought by the HERO – Housing and Empowerment for Roma project, funded by the European Parliament to members of marginalized Roma communities. If the aid model implemented in five Slovak municipalities and others in Bulgaria and Romania proves successful, it is to be applied throughout Europe, as per Ingrid udviková from the Press Office of the European Commission (EC) in Slovakia.

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Venice Biennale

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Venice Biennale

A project by the Polish-Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas was inaugurated in the Polish pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. For the first time in the over 120-year history of the Biennale, the national pavilion is represented by a Roma artist. The pavilion opening ceremony was attended by: Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Wanda Zwinogrodzka, director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Barbara Schabowska and director of Zachęta Janusz Janowski.

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Venice Biennale

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Venice Biennale

The art of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is an attempt or a tool to unlearn thinking that lead to the current war, say Joanna Warsza and Wojciech Szymański, curators of the exhibition “Przeczarowanie świat”, which will be shown at the Polish Pavilion in Venice as part of the Art Biennale 2022.

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Slovenia and Roma

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Slovenia and Roma

Jožek Horvat-Muc, president of the Roma Association of Slovenia (ZRS) was interviewed on the situation of Roma in Slovenia and on what still needs to be done. Horvat notes that each government has done something, but none has done enough.

Still a long way to go for this rather small minority.

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Czech Republic and Roma Refugees

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Simply they don’t want them.

The editor-in-chief of the Info.cz server, Michal Půr, went to the assistance centre for refugees, where Ukrainians are registered, and he was unpleasantly surprised by what he witnessed. He described on Twitter how he was shocked by the Roma camp and what would need to be improved within the organization without delay.

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Poland and Roma Refugees

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Poland and Roma Refugees

There is a bitter saying about the hospitality that the Polish government boasts in the world: everyone helps the Ukrainians, and the Roma help the Roma.

In brief, the Poles do not want them. At the end of March, when the war was already a month old, one of the volunteers said she called the voivode’s helpline to place a group of Ukrainian Roma in a refugee centre. She heard: “Gypsies have lice and we don’t take them.”

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Czech Republic, Roma Refugees and Hungarians

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Czech Republic, Roma Refugees and Hungarians

There is more and more talk about refugees from Ukraine who have Hungarian passports in addition to Ukrainian citizenship. Politicians talk about these refugees mainly in connection with the Roma fleeing the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The South Moravian Governor Jan Grolich from KDU-ČSL was the first to mention “Hungarian Ukrainians” without any knowledge and context and to to accuse them to abuse social benefits in the Czech Republic. The mayor of the capital city of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, also justifies the Hungarian citizenship not to register them.

As said, the Orban government granted many residents of Transcarpathian Ukraine the Hungarian cisitzenship.

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Roma in Hungary

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Roma in Hungary

A reportage in Nyiregyhaza, in Eastern Hungary, in a day care centre in a Roma settlement. What the reportage omits to say here, is that these schools and day-care centres are de-facto segregated, as no non-Roma ever goes there. De facto, this perpetuates the segregation.

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