Not really a surprise to see that Travellers and Roma are the two ethnic groups who face the most prejudice in Ireland …
The story of Mirjam Karoly’s and her family from the Burgenland.
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Almost no news in the French press about Roma this week. A French researcher, Lise Foisneau, who has been sharing the daily life with travellers in France for the last ten years, has created an online resource that lists all the known victims of the community during World War Two. Unfortunately, as most French, they still do not understand the differences between groups and the fact that these are mostly Roma.
The historian Kateřina Čapková is a leading expert on modern Jewish history in Central and Eastern Europe, the history of the Sinti and Roma, and on flight and migration in the 20th century. She teaches at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The central focus of her research is on the experiences of Jewish communities in what was then Czechoslovakia during and after World War II. Čapková opens up new perspectives on the interactions between nationalism, minority policy, and transnational networks in Europe. The Reimar Lüst Prize will enable her to conduct research at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig.
Greater Manchester Police has apologised ‘for any humiliation and distress caused’ after groups of kids were ordered to leave the city, a leading Travellers’ charity has said.
Well, they took time. And it was definitively racist.
A documentary about Hitler’s favourite director Leni Riefenstahl only sparingly illuminates how Riefenstahl took legal action against critics of her Nazi involvement.
She produced “The Beautiful Appearance of the Third Reich” and was a dancer, actress and director. With three NSDAP party congress films and her films about the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, she was the award-winning cinematic figurehead of the National Socialist dictatorship. Director legends such as George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino are among her admirers. Alice Schwarzer defended the artist against the accusation of being a Nazi propagandist.
Or how tabloids perpetuate stereotypes about Roma.
Very little news this week in the French media about Roma. Not surprising when there are many important news to report on …
The closure and dismantling of the largest Roma settlement in France near Nantes is hitting a hurdle after the association who said they would lead the project withdrew their offer. In Central France, a discussion on travellers took place; and finally, two articles actually not related to France. one about an adopted Romni from Romania in Canada and one about the instrumentalization of Roma against Ukrainian refuges in Swtrizerland.
The article depicts what they call the “Italian Sinti mirror scam”. In this case, the Carabinieri were driving, when they noticed two cars pulled over on the side of the road, with their respective drivers in a heated argument. A young 19-year-old – with a criminal record – allegedly ordered the other driver, a 62-year-old, to stop for alleged damage he had caused while driving. He wanted 350 euros, to end it there, refusing to proceed through insurance channels, as the 62-year-old wanted, who was convinced he had not been involved in any road accident.
A TV Reality Star, who was featured in “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” has been protesting the heavy handed intervention of the Manchester police who forcefully removed Roma from a Christmas market and put them in a train which left them stranded out of the city.
A hundred years old former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp will finally have to face prosecution for his crimes after a court overturned the decision of a lower court that he is unfit for trial.
Since 2012, the Roma Adult Education Center Burgenland has been publishing the “RomaCajtung” twice a year. The main person responsible for the existence of the newspaper is the ORF journalist Erich Schneller, who died in 2021. He always set himself the goal of raising public awareness of the Roma and was editor-in-chief of the “RomaCajtung” until his death. “Erich Schneller’s commitment was tireless, we still miss him very much today,” says Horst Horvath.
A flurry of events about Roma in France. In Galliac, near Paris in Ivry, the closing of the ‘Month for the Roma’ with several events. Then, the more usual, a fire in a Roma camp near Nantes, and the case of Roma pimps in Toulouse.
A controversy started in Reggio Emilia where the Municipality has budgeted for the next three years a figure of one million euros dedicated to the school integration of Roma, Sinti and Caminanti students.
Opposition (mostly the Lega) are criticising this subsidy saying that other students should also benefit and decrying the “waste of money”.
A memorial was inaugurated in Echelmeyer Park in Saarbrücken on Sunday. It commemorates the victims of the persecution of Sinti and Roma during the Nazi regime in the Saarland.
Deutsche Bahn is planning to expand a S-Bahn tunnel in Berlin. But there is opposition from representatives of the Roma and Sinti: They believe that the construction will endanger the memorial of the Sinti and Roma victims of the Nazi regime.
Manchester Police forced Roma and Traveller’s children who were attending a Christmas market onto trains which left them 100 miles away from Manchester. Roma and Travellers association are considering legal actions and have requested apologies from the police.
A councillor who had to resign over a tweet on August 2nd, the day commemorating the genocide of the Roma about a meeting held to discuss possible land to be allotted for camps of Roma and Travellers. Well, she is back in business.
Would this have been the case if she had done the same on another minority?
In Nantes, in Western France, the city is closing one of the largest Roma slums where more than 1’000 people live and is trying to re-lodge them. Near Paris, volunteers are catching stray cats on the site of a former Roma camp. The festival “A month for Roma” is closing with conferences and various activities. Unfortunately, they always speak of Travellers…
Finally, several articles on a reportage on the M6 channel filmed in a Roma camp. This reportage also showed that many of the residents of this camp work as day-labourers for farmers …
A Seminar to remember the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti will be held on November 22 in Agnone on and aims to shed light on a dark chapter in European history, too often forgotten: the Genocide of the Roma and Sinti. Agnone is the town where from 1941 to 1943 Roma and Sinti were interned in the San Bernardino concentration camp
The program of the seminar includes a series of events ranging from visits to historical sites to conferences held by experts in the field. It will start on November 22 with a visit to the former Convent of San Bernardino, a place of memory that during the Second World War saw the internment of 150 Roma and Sinti. In the afternoon, at the Municipality of Agnone, a conference will be held with the participation of historians, activists and representatives of the Roma and Sinti communities.
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