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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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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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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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Poland: Roma Settlement

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Poland: Roma Settlement

The bad conditions in the Roma housing estate in Maszkowice (Małopolskie Voivodeship) have not improved, the Commissioner for Citizens’ Rights is alerting. The residents of the estate have lived in terrible conditions for years. The commune has not done anything to improve the situation and the Human Rights Defender is intervening.

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On June 19, 2020, during the renovation and construction works at the market square in Tarnogród, the remains of Roma Holocaust victims were found. The exhumation, carried out by the Institute of National Remembrance, uncovered the remains of  22 people: 8 men, 3 women, probably 3 women, 8 children and 2 fetuses. The Roma were murdered by German gendarmes in May 1942.

The remains were buried in the parish cemetery in Prostynia. The ceremony began in the area of ​​the Execution Site at the monument to the Roma and Sinti located next to the Treblinka I Penal Labor Camp, with the participation of the Roma community and invited guests.

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Ukrainian Refugees

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Ukrainian Refugees

Two articles in the French Press on refugees from the Ukraine. In Budapest and in Warsaw. In Budapest, Roma have been sent to a vagrant shelter, and in Warsaw, they struggle to find lodgings.

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Poland and Roma Refugees

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Poland and Roma Refugees

Right after the outbreak of the war, two Roma women and eight children came. The oldest crossed the border barefoot. They have not been registered. It is not known what happened to them. They disappeared – says Dr. Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska, who has been supporting the Roma community for two decades, president of the Foundation for the Website of Dialogue and co-founder of the Poland-Roma-Ukraine group on Facebook.

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Poland and Refugees

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Poland and Refugees

Dr. Hanna Machińska, Polsih deputy Ombudsman declared in an interview that Poland is applying double standards concerning refugees. Better not be coloured or Rom…

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Poland and Roma Refugees

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Poland and Roma Refugees

Some places we visited in Poland with Roma refugees.


Waplewo:  85 Roma, out of which 46 children.  From Lutsk, Ukraine.

Krzyżowice: 12 Roma of which 6 children. From Odessa. They want to go to Lithuania where they have relatives.

Wasilków: 102 Roma out of which 56 children. From Wolynië.

Currently no help from the Polish state.

  • Rroma Foundation / Rroma Contact Point.
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Ukrainian Refugees in Poland

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We have news of several groups of Roma in Poland. One group of elderly people, women and children arrived initially in Przemiśl, and are now in Waplewo. They are from Lutsk. Another group of ca. 15 people, originally from the Odessa region is currently is trying to get to Lithuania where they have relatives. They lack money to pay for the transport. Another group is stuck in Młyny at the border.

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Réfugiés

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Réfugiés

The openhearted welcome of Poles towards Ukrainians stops when they are Roma. Several of them are stuck in Młyny on the Polish-Ukrainian Border.

We have reports of others in Przemyśl.

Numbers are unclear but rather small according to our informations.

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Limanowa, Poland

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Limanowa, Poland

The municipality of Limanowa is trying to relocate Roma families away from their current residence near the centre to a new apartment block that is planned to be built. Roma oppose the move and accuse the mayor of trying to create a Roma ghetto.

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Poznan and Roma

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Poznan and Roma

Residents are fuming against a Roma settlement in Poznan, fearing for their “safety”, complaining about noise, mess and smoke in the camp on Lechicka Street. The title says “Why do we allow 13-year-olds to get pregnant in the 21st century?”.

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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

The project “Obscuring the world” by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas will be presented in the Polish Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition. The fact that a Romni can represent Poland seems to be quite new to the country…

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