A Roma settlement in Telgárt, Slovakia almost totally burnt out in July. Now, the Slovak state announced they will end the aid for those families who lost their homes. Will they also take away the tents they currently live in?
“Historians are still trying to estimate the exact number of victims of the crime in Ponary, which was committed by the German occupiers together with Lithuanian auxiliary troops, the Shaulis. Estimates say at least 80,000. victims” said Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage Dr. Jarosław Sellin during the opening of the exhibition “Victims of crime in Ponary near Vilnius 1941-1944”, which took place today at Targ Węglowy in Gdańsk . The exhibition can be visited until September 29, 2023.
The victims were mostly Jewish but there were also Roma and Poles who were killed there.
The new centre for Roma is scheduled to open in Prague in November 2024. It is set up in the Dejvice district in a villa from the times of the First Czechoslovak Republic by the Museum of Roma Culture (MRK). The keys were handed over to the construction company on Wednesday, which is now starting the renovation. This was announced by the director of the MRK, Jana Horváthová, to the ČTK press agency.
The Regional Court in Košice ruled in favour of nine Roma plaintiffs who were forcibly evicted from their homes in Nižné Kapustníky in Košice eleven years ago.
This was reported on Wednesday by Jonathan Lee from the European Center for Roma Rights, according to which the city of Košice evicted the entire local Roma community under the pretext of garbage removal.
According to him, the residents were not offered any alternative accommodation after their homes were demolished, as a result of which they became homeless.
The police do not officially keep statistics on crime committed by Roma, but the police can say that in municipalities with a large number of Roma, they cause up to 90 percent of all crime.
In Ivančna Gorica, the situation is so serious that the locals decided to organize the so-called village guards.
Two more articles among a plethora of them n the new Polish Netflix series on Roma.
The series, while highlighting serious problems and challenges faced by Roma, also perpetuates many clichés. That is not so good.
The Parliamentary Committee for Internal Affairs, Public Administration and Local Self-Government discussed the situation of the Roma community for several hours today. In 30 years, the situation has not improved, but worsened, it was heard several times today. They allocate 15 mio euros per year to this problem.
But they also highlighted some examples of good practices, such as afternoon activities for children in Roma communities.
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The Gypsy Fest Festival will take place this coming weekend in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Students from the Roma Association “Romaversitas” started a campaign against the abuse of quotas at the university and a correction in the application of the enrolment policy, after five Roma students who applied to the Faculty of Medicine were rejected from the state and private quota of the faculty.
The police in Kharkiv arrested four Roma (the article says it is a “gang”) who robbed and robbed elderly people during the war. The bandits took 1.8 million hryvnias worth of money and property from the homes of the victims.
“The perpetrators came to the homes of the elderly and presented themselves as volunteers distributing humanitarian aid. Under this pretext, the suspects entered the apartments of the victims, after which they stole their property, money and openly robbed,” the prosecutor’s office said.
The NEtflic series “Infamia” is not only about the Roma or Poles. It’s about someone we perceive as a “stranger”. Here in Europe, we have a built-in and fuelled fear of foreigners. I wanted to encourage viewers to, instead of being afraid, ask “others” out of our common social life, take a closer look at them, see people in them, says Anna Maliszewska, the director of the series.
One year after the death of the founder of Roma pastoral care in the Republic of Croatia, Sister Karolina Miljak, ASC (1950 – 2022), a feuilleton in five parts aims to prove that there are already indelible traces that she and her colleagues left on the Church, institutions , the culture of dialogue, but most of all on the lives of members of the Roma community whom she not only helped, but sincerely looked forward to meeting them, raised awareness in society about the challenges they face and wholeheartedly believed in their social integration and progress.
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The OĽaNO chairman and former prime minister Igor Matovič and the president of the Republic Milan Uhrík discussed in the program O 5 minut 12 on RTVS. He admitted that he “doesn’t go much” to his job as an MEP, but despite this, he earned more than 400,000 euros in the European Parliament.
At the beginning of the show, the moderator confronted Milan Uhrík with his past statements about the Holocaust. Uhrík did not directly condemn the Holocaust of Jews, Roma, LGBTI+ people, etc. “Certainly none of us wishes, neither now, nor in the past, nor in the future, that anyone, be it Igor Matovič, Milan Uhrík, your children, our children, anyone, would be taken to some concentration camp because he is small, fat big, white, black or whatever, we don’t even have to debate it.’
Roma IDPs in Lviv are getting baptised in the Polish catholic church. They were most probably orthodox prior to this. What is the point?
The efforts to standardise Romanes continue. We are not in agreement with this, as the main dialect groups are quite different. The danger of creating an artificial language are quite large.
On Tuesday, September 12, the Roma National Council and the City of Subotica are organizing the First Festival of Roma Music, the Roma Tambura and Brass Evening, on the City Square.
The Czech Roma actor Zdeněk Godla has announced he will quit acting. He got into acting by accident: He worked as a public works worker in Chomutov, where the audition was taking place. He participated, won, and since then has been an actor who often appears in films and series. His most famous works include, for example, the character František from the series Most.
Apparently, he is also in financial trouble, something that may have to do with his current decision.
An article about some Romane traditions, wrapped in lots of bad journalism. Yes, some of the facts such a whistling in a house are frowned upon (in this particular case, it is calling the devil), but all the thing around is just simply bad.
Is Zofia Jastrzębska, the star of the latest Netflix series in Poland palying a 17 years old Romni, herself a Romni?
The real question in this case is does it matter?
“Infamia” has just debuted on Netflix. The series by Anna Maliszewska and Jakub Czekaj is, in many respects, a unique and very original production. Although it does not avoid minor mistakes and shortcomings, one can honestly admit that it is one of the most interesting Polish TV series in recent months, and maybe even years.
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