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Czechia: Project

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A project called “Everyone Together”, supported by Norwegian funds, lasted two and a half years in Tábor, Czechia. It enabled more insight in the relationship between the Roma and the majority population in Tábor and into the problems of the Roma. Around six hundred of them live in the town of Tabor which has 34 thousand inhabitants. However, it is clear from the results of surveys, polls and analyses, that a lot of work still needs to be done.

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Lety: Interview

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An interview with Karolina Spielmannová from the Museum of Roma Culture in Brno about why it took 30 years to be finally able to open the memorial on the site of the former concentration camp of Lety.

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Trnava, Slovakia, and Beggars

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A worrying article about an increase of beggars in the town of Trnava in central Slovakia. Most of these beggars are local Roma, and according to the article, people feel threatened by them.

Bad.

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Ukrainian Roma Children

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There is an increasing number of Roma children from Transcarpathian Ukraine in need of integration in the education system in Switzerland. Besides the normal language barrier, the main challenge is that many of these children have never been to school in the Ukraine. This poses an even bigger challenge to the towns who have to integrate them.

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Roma and Ukrainians

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Dialogue and striving for mutual understanding are the key to peaceful coexistence, agreed the participants of the reconciliation round table, which took place on Thursday in response to the recent conflict in Kutná Hora, during which one of the local Roma was attacked by a Ukrainian citizen. Subsequently, a demonstration was held by part of the local Roma community. The government representative for the Roma minority Lucie Fuková, the mayor of Kutná Hora Lukáš Seifert, representatives of the police and the local Roma and Ukrainian communities took part in the meeting.

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Khamoro

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An article on the upcoming 26th edition of the international Roma festival in Prague that will last an entire week starting on May 26th.

Džemil Silajdžić, the producer and dramaturg of the festival said: “We tuned the program up to the last minute, and I can promise that everyone will really enjoy it. I believe that this year’s Khamoro will be at least as successful as last year, when we celebrated our twenty-fifth birthday and enjoyed the huge interest of visitors. We are very much looking forward to everyone who loves Roma culture or is just starting to discover it. Khamoro shines for everyone.”

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Official Opening

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Many articles in the Czech press about the official opening of the memorial on the site of the former concentration camp of Lety.

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Kamill Erdős

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A travelling exhibition called “I’ll find you with God, my brother!” with the subtitle “Gypsy Stories” elaborates and presents to the public the Erdős Kamill legacy preserved in the collection of the Erkel Ferenc Museum in Gyula, i.e. the results of the research conducted among the Roma in Hungary in the 20th century – this time in Kápolnásnyé, at the Halász Gedeon Event Center.

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Lety

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The Roma and Sinti Holocaust Memorial in Lety na Píseck will be opened to the public for the first time today. It stands on the site of a former concentration camp for Roma from the Second World War. From today at 12:00 p.m., a commemoration of the victims of the Roma Holocaust is being held in the memorial area. ROMEA TV broadcasts the course of the memorial service live. It will be attended by Senate President Miloš Vystrčil (ODS). The memorial will open to the public at 3:00 p.m.

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French Chronicle …

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Not much this week in France about Roma. There were enough other themes this week …

An association helping Roma to access schools in the Lyon region; a relocation in better condition for a Roma camp in Strasbourg; and the closure of a camp near Paris.

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A Historian on Lety

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Anna Míšková, a co-creator of the Lety exhibition, described the creation of the camp, life and death within it, and also talked about the pre-war position of the Roma in Czech society. She said that even before the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, there were proposals for the establishment of labour camps, there was often an effort to expel the Roma from the territory of the municipalities where they lived.

Well, nearly all Roma from Czechia died in the Holocaust.

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Prague: Kali Sarah

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The first annual Kali Sara festival will take place in Prague on May 18, 2024 in the premises of PVA Letňany. The festival is inspired by the traditional meeting of Roma in the French village of Saintes Marie de la Mer and the feast of Saint Sarah, who for many is a symbol of Roma identity and faith.

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Bosnia: Saint Georges

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The feast of St. Georges or Đurđevdan is one of the most Roma feast in the Balkans. Here, two articles about it in Bosnia and Hercegovina, close to Sarajevo.

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Transcarpathian Ukraine and Roma

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An attempt to mobilise Roma from the Transcarpathian Ukraine resulted in a riot that was dispersed by using gunfire.

Bad.

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Lety

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The memorial of the Genocide of the Roma in the camp of Lety, Czechia, will be open to the public on Sunday the 12th of May.

What is interesting in this article is that it states that ‘The participation of Czech gendarmes and camp commanders in the genocide of the Roma during the Second World War was denied throughout the forty years of communism. The taboo after the revolution was broken by historian Ctibor Nečas”

As a reminder, less than 40 Roma families from present Day Czechia survived the Holocaust.

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Bulgaria: Romni in Politics

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Folk singer Roxana announced that she is entering politics. She is running for MP from Radostin Vassilev’s party MECH. Antoineta Linkova, Roksana’s real name, is of Romani origin.

“I am a Bulgarian woman of ethnic origin. This does not make me less Bulgarian than anyone. I am here because the integration that has been talked about for 30 years must work,” said the deputy candidate.

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Khamoro Festival

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From June 1st onward, the 26th edition of the Khamoro festival in Prague will bring nnbridled flamenco in a modern guise, energetic Olaš (Vlach) chapáš, Macedonian brass band, bravura gypsy jazz, but also film screenings and a gastronomic show.

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Switzerland and Roma Refugees

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The Swiss minister in charge of refugees now stats that Ukrainian Roma with dual citizenship will have to leave Switzerland.

Only one little thing is not published: There are less than 10 cases that are officially acknowledged. And none on the Roma who are considered to be “problematic”.

Window dressing in politics. Shameful.

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Switzerland and Roma Refugees

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The story of a small village that set up a special class for 6 Roma children from Ukrainian Roma refugees, only to see that they left.

This happens, but generally doesn’t happen just because of school. There are other pressures that are applied to those Roma mostly coming from Transcarpathian Ukraine where they lived in very hard conditions, literally overwhelming them. Some prefer simply to leave.

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Roma Settlements

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Housing, water, sewerage, but also education and work are among the biggest problems of the marginalized Roma community. However, improving these issues is often slowed by the problem of land ownership, which is very often unresolved in such settlements.

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