Category Archives: Germany

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Romnja Association

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Romnja of Serbian and Macedonian origins founded the first Roma Women’s Association registered in Germany. The basic postulates of the Roma Women’s Association are the strengthening of the position of Roma women in the family and society, the fight against violence, forced and early marriages, as well as domestic and sexual violence.

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Berlin, the Police, and Roma

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A lecture by a federal police officer at the federal government’s open day in Berlin last weekend sparked sharp criticism from the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and the religious policy spokesman for the Green parliamentary group, Volker Beck.

According to the Central Council and Beck, the representative of the Berlin Directorate of the Federal Police gave a public lecture in the Federal Ministry of the Interior entitled “Beware of thieves! How pickpockets use tricks and how you can successfully ruin their criminal journey.” In it, Roma are said to have been generally referred to as “large criminal families” organized into “criminal clans” that move through Europe. Other ethnic groups were also racially discriminated against: each ethnic group, North African or Polish, had “its own criminal methods”.

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Sinti Grave

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Securing, preserving and renovating the Sinto grave in Osendorf, one of the very few such memorial in Germany, remains on the city of Halle (Saale)’s agenda. “This is clearly our goal – even if the city’s application for federal funding was rejected,” says Jane Unger, head of the culture department for the city of Halle (Saale). Financing options for the renovation are now being sought together with the state.

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Bavaria: Aiwanger and Nazism

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A controversy has been brewing in Bavaria: Aiwanger, the leader of a party in current coalition in the Bavarian government, has been linked to a manifesto, written in the 1980’s that is definitively an apology of Nazism. His brother has in between claimed he is the author and Aiwanger has “apologised”, kind of.

Disgraceful and distasteful.

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Mass Murder in the Ukraine

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A reportage of the mass murder committed by German tropps on Roma during World War Two in the Ukraine.

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Germany: Exhibition

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The exhibition “The Path of #Sinti and #Roma” by the Hessian State Association of Sinti and Roma  in northern Hesse will be shown from Saturday, September 2, 2023 (opening from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.) until September 26, 2023.

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Germany: Clan Criminality

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The Green politician Renate Künast’s move to stop using the term “clan criminality” by the North Rhine-Westphalia, a term that was heavily criticised by Roma organisations was rejected. NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) told the “Bild” (Saturday edition): “You have to name problems if you want to solve them. Out of sheer fear of stigmatization, clan criminality was ignored for 30 years. We have to spoon up the soup now”.

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Germany, Bulgaria, and Bad Journalism

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An article in the sensation paper “Bild” about the Stolipino Mahala in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Parts of it are really poor, other less so. And here of course, as a title: “All want to come to Germany”.

Bad.

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Dortmund Festival

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The Roma culture festival “Djelem Djelem” is taking place in Dortmund for the tenth time in a row. Until September 26, 2023, visitors can get to know the culture of the Sinti and Roma through films, theatre performances, music, training and encounters. Most of the events are free of charge.

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Germany: Integration?

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For several years, a group of Roma from Romania lived in a camp in the middle of Berlin. Now the district wants to put them in apartments and find them official work.

The article asks whether this will work. Alone the question contains a lot of stereotypes …

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The Forgotten Holocaust

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The Genocide of Roma by the National Socialists is often called the forgotten Holocaust.

According to Jens-Christian Wagner, head of the Buchenwald memorial site, the commemoration of the mass deportation and murder of Sinti and Roma under National Socialism receives too little attention. “This is a topic that is in fact not nearly as present in public as the Shoah, i.e. the murder of European Jews,” Wagner told the German Press Agency.

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Romani Rose on Racism

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In the context of the commemoration of the 2nd of August, Romani Rose called the European Union to outlaw anti-Roma racism alongside antisemitism.

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Ravensbrück: Memorial

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On August 2nd, a memorial plaque for the Sinti and Roma deported from Koblenz by the National Socialists will be unveiled at the Ravensbrück Memorial in Brandenburg. The occasion is the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the National Socialist Genocide of the Sinti and Roma.

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Germany and the Genocide of the Roma

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Further commemorations planned on August 2nd in Darmstadt and in Ravensbrück.

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Germany and Roma Refugees from the Ukraine

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According to Daniel Strauss, chairman of the State Association of Sinti and Roma in Baden-Württemberg, Roma were discriminated against in Ukraine, a discrimination which continued after fleeing the war zone to Germany.

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Germany: Fight against Racism

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Sinti and Roma opened and anti-discrimination office in Nuremberg. They hope this will help highlight the current racism and discriminations faced by this minority in Germany and also contribute to the fight against racism.

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